100% Melon de Bourgogne. Pépière has 14 hectares of vines in the cru of Château Thébaud, but only a 1.5-hectare parcel of vines 25 to 70 years old goes into this bottling (the rest goes into the entry-level "La Pépie"). The south-facing site features sandy clay soils based on decomposed granite de Thébaud--which has more clay and is thus cooler and slower-ripening versus granite de Clisson--and overlying mother rock of the same granite. All vineyard work including harvest is manual. As for all Pépière wines, the whole bunches are direct-pressed very gently. The juice settles naturally in steel tanks for 12 hours. It is fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. The young wine is moved by gravity to large underground tanks of glass-lined cement. Château Thébaud calls for extended lees aging of up to 3.5 years and is bottled unfiltered.