This month, and so late last month that they weren’t included in my March diary, I had the pleasure of discovering quite a few new wines tasted at home. Most notable was the range of Bretaudeau wines made in the Muscadet region but often from grape varieties not permitted for Muscadet, so labelled, fashionably, as Vin de France. Jérôme Bretaudeau already had quite a reputation locally for his Domaine de Bellevue, the quality of his wines and his mastery of biodynamic viticulture...
Jancis's diary – April 2026
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