Loire Valley
Marguerite - 2022 - Fred Niger
Domaine de l'Ecu
Mineral notes combine with distinctive maritime aromas (seaweed, iodine...), and citrus notes blend into aromas of roots and gentian flowers. The attack is clean and pure, great volume on the mid-palate. Fine, lime-like acidity. Strong saline notes, great freshness, and a beautiful finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 10.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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Never heard of Folle Blanche? Here’s a wine to convince you of this little grape’s big potential. Fred made the decision to reject the consensus view on this often underestimated grape, and to rehabilitate its image though care and attention. The vines, certified biodynamic by DEMETER, grow on a plateau of siliceous clay soils over a gneiss subsoil. Hand picking, reception of harvest by gravity, no clarification, indigenous yeasts, maturation on lees in underground cement vats for 12 months, no fining, no filtration.

Fred Niger
Fred bought Domaine de l'Écu in 2010, with its perfect soils cultivated organically since 1972, then certified biodynamic by DEMETER in 1998. He’s been collaborating with Guy Bossard since 2014, the master of Muscadet. The pairing is simply miraculous. Fred, a novice at winegrowing but an unparalleled taster, knows exactly what he wants and what he intends to do for wine in the Muscadet....
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