Brendan Stater-West Saumur Les Chapaudaises Blanc 2020 nerello-cappuccio especially red meat and game

especially red meat and game

It is a Pinot that simultaneously provides a lot of pull on the palate and whose acidity describes a wide arc

with extended maceration to enable good tannin and development

200 purification plates

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Les Chapaudaises Blanc 2020 nerello-cappuccio especially red meat and gameThe lieu dit bottling hails from the sites oldest and most unproductive vines. Les Chapaudaises has been farmed organically since 2010 and is a site Stater West explains is finely tuned for the style of Chenin that I am crazy for; elegant, pure, vertical, with salinity from the limestone. The vineyard is picked slightly earlier than Guiberteaus Clos de Guichaux, and Stater West works with fewer lees than his colleague, giving a Chenin of radiant