Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 tag powdery tannins

powdery tannins

Fichet works a small collection of parcels around Meursault - every one of them under a hectare - and the vines behind his Bourgogne Blanc run roughly 47 to 80 years old

it's elegant

1% for a pinch more punch

including Durant

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 tag powdery tanninsBrz is the hilltop tuffeau and clay cru that Clos Rougeard made mythic and that Romain Guiberteau has spent the last two decades resurrecting. Brendan Stater West, the American who landed in Saumur to work at Guiberteau and stayed to start his own domaine, now farms a parcel of old Chenin there himself, courtesy of his mentor. This is the Brz bottling: 100% Chenin from limestone slopes, organically farmed, fermented with indigenous yeast, aged at