Domaine Michel Redde et Fils

La Moynerie sits in the right-bank commune of Saint-Andelain, the heart of the Pouilly-Fumé appellation, on the elevated plateau that climbs above the Loire. The Redde family has worked vines there across several generations, and the estate took its modern shape under Michel Redde, who consolidated parcels across the appellation's three principal soil types through the postwar decades and built the domaine into one of Pouilly-Fumé's reference family estates. La Moynerie became the operational base and the source of the village-and-estate cuvée that carries the site's name. The estate's identity is anchored in the parcellary work across flint, calcareous clay, and Kimmeridgian marl that defines the Pouilly-Fumé soil map.

• La Moynerie sits in Saint-Andelain, the right-bank commune at the heart of the Pouilly-Fumé AOC
• Redde family has worked vines in the area across several generations
• Modern estate took shape under Michel Redde through the postwar decades
• Parcellary work across flint, calcareous clay, and Kimmeridgian marl anchors the estate's identity

The estate operates today as Domaine Michel Redde et Fils under Michel's grandsons Sébastien and Romain Redde, who handle viticulture, vinification, and the commercial side together as the third generation. The brothers have kept the estate's traditional Pouilly-Fumé approach (stainless steel for the village wines, used wood for the parcellary upper cuvées, long lees on the older-vine selections) while modernizing where necessary, with a push toward more careful vineyard work, lower yields, and a steady move toward sustainable and organic-leaning farming on parts of the holdings. The estate sits in the upper tier of Pouilly-Fumé producers alongside Didier Dagueneau and Château de Tracy, while keeping its own family-scale and parcellary identity.

• Operates as Domaine Michel Redde et Fils under grandsons Sébastien and Romain Redde as the third generation
• Traditional Pouilly-Fumé approach kept: stainless for village wines, used wood for parcellary upper cuvées, long lees on older-vine selections
• Push toward more careful vineyard work, lower yields, and sustainable and organic-leaning farming
• Sits in the upper tier of Pouilly-Fumé producers alongside Didier Dagueneau and Château de Tracy

The estate covers approximately forty hectares of vines, concentrated in the heart of the Pouilly-Fumé AOC around Saint-Andelain with additional holdings in adjacent communes. The vineyards span the three principal soils of the appellation: silex (clay with embedded flint, which gives the gunflint and smoky pierres-à-fusil character that defines Pouilly-Fumé at its most distinctive), calcaires (calcareous clay, which gives more roundness and palate weight), and Kimmeridgian marl (the same Jurassic seabed limestone that defines Chablis and Chavignol, giving structure and saline minerality). The parcellary cuvée line draws selectively from these three soil types to give each bottling its own character. A small Sancerre holding on the left bank rounds out the geography.

• Approximately forty hectares of vines in Pouilly-Fumé, concentrated around Saint-Andelain
• Silex (flint-clay) parcels for the gunflint pierres-à-fusil character that defines Pouilly-Fumé
• Calcaires (calcareous clay) parcels for roundness and palate weight
• Kimmeridgian marl parcels for structure and saline minerality, plus a small Sancerre holding on the left bank

The portfolio is built around the parcellary cuvée line. La Moynerie is the village-and-estate cuvée, drawn from the broader soil mix across the estate's holdings and vinified in stainless steel for clean, mineral early drinking. Les Champs des Billons is a single-vineyard bottling from calcareous clay parcels with longer lees and partial barrel, giving more roundness and palate weight. Majorum is the old-vine flint top cuvée, raised in barrel with extended élevage and built for cellar-aging on a longer timescale than the village wine. The Pouilly-sur-Loire Chasselas is maintained as a small bottling, one of the last serious producer expressions of the disappearing twin appellation. A small Sancerre line and a Pinot Noir red round out the portfolio.

• La Moynerie is the village-and-estate cuvée from the broader soil mix, vinified in stainless steel
• Les Champs des Billons is a single-vineyard bottling from calcareous clay with longer lees and partial barrel
• Majorum is the old-vine flint top cuvée, raised in barrel for extended élevage and cellar-aging
• Pouilly-sur-Loire Chasselas maintained as one of the last serious producer expressions of the disappearing twin appellation

Michel Redde occupies a clear position in modern Pouilly-Fumé. The estate is one of the appellation's reference family domaines, sitting in the upper tier alongside Didier Dagueneau and Château de Tracy. The parcellary cuvée line gives a clean read across Pouilly-Fumé's three principal soils (flint, calcareous clay, Kimmeridgian marl), and Majorum's old-vine flint top cuvée is one of the more cellar-worthy expressions of the appellation outside the Dagueneau orbit. The continued production of the Pouilly-sur-Loire Chasselas bottling is also significant: it preserves one of the few remaining serious producer expressions of the disappearing twin appellation, alongside a small handful of estates that still keep the grape in the ground.

• Upper-tier reference Pouilly-Fumé estate alongside Didier Dagueneau and Château de Tracy
• Parcellary cuvée line gives clean reads across the appellation's three principal soils
• Majorum old-vine flint top cuvée is one of the more cellar-worthy Pouilly-Fumés outside the Dagueneau orbit
• Continued Pouilly-sur-Loire Chasselas bottling preserves a rare serious producer expression of the disappearing twin appellation