D OMAINE L UCAS SALMON

Cuvée “Les Brossses”

The cuvée Les Brosses is a 1,80 hectare plot located on a hillside to the right of the village. The vines range from 44 to 79 years old. The soil is rather similar to the Terroirs cuvée but in several places of the plot, veins of rock are flush with the surface of the soil.
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TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION :
AOP Muscadet
Variety : 100% Melon B.
This cuvée comes only from the OLD vines of the plot.
In biological conversion.
Ground : Surface soil of sandy-pebbly silt with subsoil of altered granite with two micas, and gneiss. The soils are fully plowed.
Winemaking : Mechanical harvesting with pneumatic pressing. Light settling followed by fermentation with indigenous yeasts in underground vats.
Raising : Three batonnages after fermentation, followed by a one-year aging on the lees.
Bottled under inert gas, without fining or filtration.