Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Chateau Thebaud 2022 SO20231114 Lafon-Rochet is a Fourth Growth

Lafon-Rochet is a Fourth Growth that has been quietly producing some of the appellation's most reliable wines for decades

a nod to the 13 grape varieties grown in the famous wine region

A terroir-driven champagne

It is dark and nearly opaque

and it is one of Rhys's eight estate sites — where neighboring Alpine gives taut

Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Chateau Thebaud 2022 SO20231114 Lafon-Rochet is a Fourth GrowthMuscadet at its most intellectually stimulating. Chteau Thbaud is one of the newly minted Cru Communaux of Muscadet Svre et Maine, and Domaine de la Ppire's bottling pulls from old vines rooted in the distinctive granite de Thbaud soils, threaded with veins of metamorphic gneiss. Marc Ollivier set the benchmark for serious Muscadet over three decades here (he retired after the 2019 vintage); the reins now sit with Rmi Branger and Gwnalle Croix, who