Not a fashionable wine anymore it seems, but it’s rather nice to be sipping a glass of chilled Muscadet around this fire.
Unfortunately its only Tesco own brand so where is likely to sell a nicer version?

Balls, wrong forum!

Mods if you would please?

Muscadet is treated with disdain even in france so dont worry about it 🙂

In france it’s primarily served with fresh shellfish or seafood, particularly Brittany (it’s a Loire wine, down the Nantaise end near the Atlantic coast). The grapes are not ones that develop many flavours (two, maybe three key varieties in Muscadet AOC, IIRC correctino, only the one: Melon de Bourgogne ) so it’s never classed as a fine wine.

Because of this, youll often end up drinking it when you buy a cheap “Own brand ” table wine with no AOC denomination, but of course thats no help if you’re out to find Muscadet in the first place.

Morrisions currently have a passable one which Ive had half a dozen bottles of recently. Not “great”, but great is relative when it comes to Muscadet.

Never pay much for Muscadet, its almost impossible to find a bottle over €10 in France.

I remember drinking it on a holiday in the region, does go well with shellfish as you say.
Has a very ‘green’ flavour to it that I like.

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Ta, I’ll take a look!

@muddy we are very partial to it especially with seafood or as an aperitif – had a bottle with friends yesterday early evening in the sunshine:) Sadly for you we paid €4 a bottle, best place to buy such a “simple” everyday wine is in France due to the UK’s tax by the bottle rather than by price/valie. TBH its exactly the sort of wine we’d never buy in the UK but we are fortunate the travel back/forth a lot.

Some here – no idea of quality, all expensive vs France of course

Majestic

A few more here (note some half bottles and some comparison wines as its a keyword search)

Wine Society

You might like to try Picpoul or Torraine too, similar-ish style (Torraine we chose for my daughters wedding – blind tasting with her/husband and friends – it was €3.20 a bottle 🙂 )

Yes, its a bit more expensive here isn’t it? 🙁

yes, but bear in mind:

UK Wine duty = £2.08 per bottle.
On which you also pay 20% VAT, taking total tax to a minimum of £2.50

Now consider that £3 bottle of “amazing value chilean merlot” in Tescos. It has a bottle, a closure, an etiquette, and a few air miles. All within the 50p from which Tescos also need a profit.

By the time you strip it back, you’re paying barely 20-30p for the wine in the bottle. Each additional £1 you put into the bottle you buy, some 50% of it goes into the quality of the wine inside.

In France, a €6 bottle of muscadet will be at the upper end of quality. They pay 2p of duty. Even a €4 bottle will have the bulk of the retail price dedicated to the quality of the wine, not the tax man or the packaging.

If you seek them out there are far superior Muscadet, and you CAN pay over E10 even in France for the best ones.
Look out for the ones that are ‘sur lie’. They have an added depth from being bottled directly off the lees without filtration.
The Wine Society are the best source in UK for a range of better Muscadet at reasonable cost.

from my favourite suppliers

http://www.tauruswines.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=95&search=muscadet

haven’t tried it, but trust their judgement. in fact this looks quite a bargain…