Winery

Luneau-Papin

Pierre and Monique recognised the potential of the Melon de Bourgogne grape early on as a terroir ambassador, demonstrating how well the grape ripens and the expressive potential it possesses.

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"The vine and the wine are fantastic tools to connect with yourself, with others, with the plants and with the stars. The path is infinite, with endless possibilities."

– Pierre-Marie Papin

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Le Verger 2020

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Smooth, Aromatic
138 kr
184 kr/L
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Vera Cruz 2018

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Creamy, Aromatic
195 kr
260 kr/L

Melon de Bourgogne as a terroir ambassador

The Domaine Luneau-Papin is one of the great innovators in the Nantais, where the Muscadet vineyards are found. It was born in the 1990s through a love story - that between Pierre Luneau and Marie Papin.

Pierre took over the vineyard in the commune of Le Landreau from his parents, while Monique took over the running of the family vineyard in Chapelle-Heulin from her mother Jeannette and father Auguste Papin.

At that time, the two belonged to the small movement that recognised the potential of the Melon de Bourgogne grape variety as a terroir translator early on, because it makes extremely sensitive demands on climate and winemakers and thus expresses its origin in an unadulterated way.

The wines exemplify how texturally and structurally strong the grape variety can be and what a wealth of expressive possibilities it possesses.

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Luneau Papin has an excellent portfolio of unique plots.

The domaine has a mixture of very different soil structures, planted with old vines from the 1940s. From the late 1970s, they began to promote these unique qualities of their individual plots, emphasising that there is not just one Muscadet, but many different ones.

The terroir consists of granite, gneiss and mica schist and is divided between the L'd'Or, Les Pierres Blanches and Clos des Allés plots.