The Muscadet wine routes in Loire-Atlantique are first and foremost a journey, an experience, a sensory discovery. A wine tourism destination par excellence, the Vignoble de Nantes and its many winegrowers welcome you all year round to share their passion.
Three wine routes for three regional appellations on lees:
- Le Voyage dans le vignoble (for Muscadet Sèvre et Maine)
- Panoramas de Loire (Muscadet Coteaux de la Loire)
- Vignobles de Grand-Lieu (Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu)
Your campsite paradise Les Rochelets, in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins, invites you to discover the first “Voyage dans le vignoble nantais”. Come and meet Muscadet, the star of the vineyard!
Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, a prestigious appellation
Before we begin our journey, a few words about this wine. Produced mainly in Loire-Atlantique, Muscadet Sèvre et Maine is a wine from the Val-de-Loire vineyards , made from the Melon de Loire grape variety . Burgundy. A dry, fruity white wine, mineral and refreshing. It is an ideal accompaniment to seafood dishes and fish with beurre blanc.
Did you know that this AOC, created in 1936, is one of the oldest in France? It’s also the largest regional appellation in the Nantes vineyards in terms of surface area and production volume, with 425 winegrowers producing Muscadet.
The term “sur lie” refers to a winemaking process. The lees is the deposit formed during alcoholic fermentation. It consists mainly of yeast, bacteria and organic compounds. There are very precise criteria for labelling wines “sur lie”.
Le Voyage dans le Vignoble
Between Nantes and Clisson, the Voyage dans le Vignoble is a 118 km wine tourism circuit. Created by the tourist organization “Le Voyage à Nantes”, it takes budding oenologists and history and nature enthusiasts through a diversity of landscapes in the southern Loire: vineyards on the banks of the Sèvre, the Goulaine marshes, the Tuscan city, medieval sites…
Some stages of the vineyard tour:
Start with a visit to Chaussée des Moines in Vertou. Embark on the porte-vue at Château-Thébaud and taste Muscadet on your way out. Stop off at Château du Coing in Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine. Visit the Musée du vignoble in La Haye-Fousssière, the Moulin à Papier du Liveau in Gorges… Finish your tour in the narrow streets of “Italian Clisson”, passing through the Garenne-Lemot park in Gétigné. And don’t hesitate to push open the doors of the tourist cellars to meet the winegrowers, witnesses to these ancestral skills.
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