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Muscadet myths debunked

Tamlyn Currin
Tamlyn Currin
Thursday 30 March 2023 • 28 min read
Looking out over the river Maine in Muscadet

The first of a two-part exploration of Muscadet looks at the regional-appellation wines. The photograph above is of the River Maine from the viewing platform in the village of Château-Thébaud – you can see how low the river is after the long, hot and very dry summer of 2022. See also Loire - Muscadet's crus communaux.

Muscadet is a wine dogged by persistent myths of a light, lean, one-dimensional wine made in vast quantities, with only a few exceptions coming from the crus communaux.

However, a blind tasting in late 2022 of more than 50 Muscadets from the...