Domaine de la Quilla, Muscadet Sevre & Maine Sur Lie (Loire Valley, France) 2020

 This fresh, lively and creamy, smooth white wine with citrus fruit and crisp acidity from the Loire Valley is the perfect wine to serve as an aperitif or with fresh seafood at the table.  At this price you can serve it for a party.  The smooth texture is the result of Sur Lie, a process of allowing the newly fermented wine to spend 7 to 10 months of maturing on the fine lees, the expired yeast cells.   Melon de Bourgogne is the primary grape variety in Muscadet wine.  According to Wine Grapes by Jancis Robinson, et al., the grape, as the name suggests, was cultivated in Burgundy as early as the thirteenth century.  It made it to the Loire Valley under the name of Plant de Bourgogne where it then became known as Muscadet.  The Muscadet Sevre & Maine appellation is named for two tributaries of the Loire River.