Le Marie. 'Blanc de Lissart'

Vino Bianco
Grape: Malvasia Moscata

A wine to compare with Alsace’s finest dry Muscats.  This is summer meadow on the nose with tangerine and elderflower, beautiful and fresh.  A bone dry, genuinely aromatic white with kiwi, jasmine and bright crystalline, fresh green-grape flavours.  Wonderful as an aperitivo or with samosas, sashimi… 13%

2024 was a wet vintage which was generous to white wines, giving a fine balance of kiwi and jasmine laced fruit, touched with peach, orange and lemon, with a twist of sea salt.  Lovely. 12%

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This is made from an ancient and long-forgotten grape variety ‘Malvasia Moscata’, a vine that was all but wiped out by odium in the 19th century.  A monovarietal Malvasia Moscata is rare in Italy, strangely, it can be found in California thanks to Piemontese immigrants, the most famous example was probably Randell Grahm’s at Bonny Doon.
Le Marie have under 2 hectares of Malvasia Moscata, the vigour of the vine being kept naturally in check by the low PH of the soils.  The vines are trained using a Guyot system which is worked entirely by hand.  The harvest is given a cold maceration before a temperature-controlled fermentation using selected yeasts.  The wine is then aged for 6 months in steel tanks before bottling where very low levels of sulphur are used.  It now has a DOC, but for Malvasia, which it is not!

Production: 10,000 bottles