📜 Muscadet

Muscadet is a French protected designation of origin (AOC/PDO) for still white wines from the Nantes vineyard area of the Loire, in Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire and Vendée. Its specification, homologated by the order of 26 November 2025, states that it was initially recognised by the decree of 23 September 1937.

The principal grape is Melon B (Melon de Bourgogne); Chardonnay B is the accessory variety, limited to 10% of the holding's planting, and the wines are blended in the same proportions. The base yield is 70 hl/ha with a ceiling of 83 hl/ha. Vines are planted at no fewer than 5,000 per hectare, and the maximum average load is 12,000 kg/ha.

Finished wines may hold at most 5 g/l of fermentable sugar; where it is between 3 and 5 g/l, total acidity must be 61 to 112 milliequivalents per litre, and volatile acidity at most 10. The name may carry the mentions «primeur» or «nouveau», or the geographical name «Vin de Loire».

All production takes place in the area approved by INAO in June 2017, which covers the listed communes of Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire and Vendée, among them Vallet, Vertou, Clisson and Le Loroux-Bottereau.