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Melon de Bourgogne vin blanc tranquille

Origin

Burgundy

Also known as

Muscadet, Burgundy white, Green Burgundy, Burgundy white, White Melon, Pétouin, Malin white

Melon de Bourgogne — a white variety almost exclusively of the Nantes region, transplanted from Burgundy in the 17th century and today inseparable from Muscadet, produced in the Pays de la Loire on the gneiss, schist and granite soils of the Nantes country — is one of France’s great Atlantic varieties.