·        L’EXPRESS MAG june 2003

« A Muscadet wine would go well with « la cotriade » dish but because of the too numerous bad souvenirs one does hesitate to do so. It is a pity. Even if there are not that many. The good Muscadet wines are sailors wines, lively and light, unrivalled on Atlantic products. One can find good Muscadet wines but it is necessary to pay a few more euros for those wines have escaped the hasty and limited savoir-faire of the region. So Jo Landron makes wine following the soils and he offers vintages bred more than one year on their lees like this sumptuous Fief du Breil which has got wild sea salted aromas with an unusual length.”

• Jean-Pierre Coffe’s book : “My favourite wines” Plon’s

“ Joseph Landron, better known as Jo, is 43 years old with a noble moustache. He does not hesitate to thrash  those wines made in a rush so that they’ll be drunk quickly and if I may venture to say so pissed quickly too ! He considers Muscadet wine has being a wrongly despised vine-plant. We are not going to say the opposite. A good Muscadet wine in a suited soil can be kept longer than one can imagine. Owner of 2 properties; Le Château de la Louvetrie and Le Château de al Carizière, totalizing 33 hectares, Jo gives the example in getting everything nature offers for his customers.

In 1993 Jo Landron starts “L’amphibolite Nature” named after a green rock made of clay manganese and iron.

To the nose, here is a pleasant, mellow and well structured wine. Once in mouth, it becomes severe with salted and slightly lemon notes.

A muscadet which minerality is as précised as an appointment says its begetter. Year 2001 € 6.82.

Another wine, surely perfect with seafood is the Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie Fief du Breil 2001 : a mineral smell with original and unusual notes of smocked gun-flint. A stunning wine coming from a vineyard old vines facing south which runs down till the Sèvre river. € 8.19 a bottle. This wine deserves to be in wine-cellars of the most hard to please people.

For the regular customers who think the Domaine has no more secret for them these is a new vintage in more confidential quantity :

• Melonix (most natural wine issued from Melon vine-plant)

Strength of alcohol 12°, fermented without yeast in demie-muid (a 600 litres oak barrel). After a malolactic fermentation wine is bred “sur lie” and bottled by gravity without clarifying or filtration. It is a wine simply made of grapes.