Muscadet wines from the mouth of the Loire

I remember buying Muscadet wines to drink with seafood at some point in the 1980s, and I remember being recommended to get the sub-appellation Muscadet de Sevre et de Maine, aiming for the wines bottled sur lie. Since coming back to Hong Kong some 22 years ago, I found that this wine is not well known and few recommended it to drink with seafood.

Produced from the Melon de Bourgogne grape in a region at the mouth of the Loire river near Nantes, Muscadet is atypical of AC names in that it refers to neither grape nor geographic area. There are 3 sub-regions, Sevre et de Maine and Coteaus de  la Loire which were named from the beginning and Cotes de Granlieu which was later added in 1994. Since 1994, there are special restriction on what qualifies for putting sur lie on the label.