Domaine du Héron Le Nid Vieilles Vignes Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie 2023

Moooose-cadet, that is! Fresh, electric, absolutely BANGIN’ — and we got this OLD VINE beauty for UNDER $15!!! Best price in the world on the ultimate Summer Savior??? You bet!!! 

Oh, Muscadet — have I told you lately that I LOVE YOU!!! My pick for the world’s most consistently under-rated wine region. It’s food-friendly, it’s salty, and minerally, with pure fruit flavors, incredible brightness, and the ability to AGE beautifully like Elizabeth Hurley frozen in carbonite. (That MUST be how she does it, right?) Barely anyone knows the grape (Melon de Bourgogne), and it’s widely besmirched — even by French wine lovers — as the third best white grape in the Loire, and the fifth best grape overall for the region, and would you believe it…even the big-wigs in Burgundy are trying to force them to change the name and distance itself from its own history. Most of France has vilified the grape for years (you could argue that the Dutch are the only reason this grape still exists) and if it wasn’t for the Great Frost of 1709 (when every other grape this far west in the Loire Valley died off in the bitter cold) — even their efforts might not have been enough to save it.

Ok — clearly, I am fired up…but one sip of this, and pure, electric, HAPPINESS reverberates through every nerve-ending in my body…and I simply don’t see how ANYONE doesn’t love this beauty. I mean, for UNDER $15?!?! Organically farmed fifty to EIGHTY year old vines grown in limestone with a high concentration of volcanic minerals…let’s GOOOO! The sample bottle shot through the office like a wildfire — and if there is ONE wine that ALL of the employees of Last Bottle, Inc. will be popping and slamming all…Summer…LONG — this is that bottle! Mainline this with a couple dozen oysters, load up a case for your next pool party, jam a bottle in your backpack for a sunny day hike (heck, you don’t even need glasses…just drink straight from the bottle!) It’s THAT refreshing, that shockingly good — like a cold-plunge for your cerebral cortex. Low alcohol, creamy texture (frequent stirring on the lees over 10 months will do that) with this piercing minerality, and salty freshness, and crisp, cool fruitiness…YES!!! The salted melon! The Granny Smith apple SNAP, the saltwater taffy, and flinty gunsmoke, with lemon verbena, and pomelo, with key lime pie…are you KIDDING me?! 

We got this at the BEST PRICE in the entire world — you can’t even find their entry-level bottling at this price…but the rare and distinguished OLD VINES?! Nobody else comes CLOSE!!! This is a case or two purchase…easy. And did I mention this ages like a champ, too? Ok, then…what could you possibly be waiting for?!?! Wine of the Summer contender, right here! 

MUSCADET for the WIN!!! 

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