Don't Be Shellfish Muscadet 2024

The name is a joke. The wine is not.

“Don’t Be Shellfish” is Muscadet — the great, perpetually underrated white wine of France’s Loire Valley, made from Melon de Bourgogne grapes grown near the Atlantic coast. Aged sur lie — on its yeast lees through the winter — it develops a creamy texture and subtle bread dough richness that separates serious Muscadet from the thin, forgettable kind.

The 2024 opens with yellow plum, citrus, green apple and an unmistakable saline minerality that practically tastes of the Atlantic. Pair it with oysters, mussels, clams, grilled shrimp or anything that swam recently. It is, objectively, one of the great food wines in the world at any price — and at this price, keeping the whole bottle to yourself would be genuinely, inexcusably shellfish.

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