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As always, it’s a dramatically intense, crystalline and soaringly pure Chenin, with this year’s flavours running through clementine and blood orange, peach, roasted citrus and a note of camphor. The texture is sublime and the length exceptional, and the more air you give it the more depth and harmony you can expect. More than ever, one of the great whites of the region (if not France!), a super-mineral Corton-Charlemagne in the heart of the Loire. 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With the help of Thierry Germain, Chevré planted at a density of 8000 vines per hectare (considerably higher than the regional norm) using a range of Chenin clones and sélections massales sourced from the vineyards of François Chidaine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"richp\"\u003eCovering a continuous parcel of two hectares, the Clos de l'Écotard has only ever been ploughed by horse and the farming has been organic since day one. The first six harvests from this site were vinified by Germain and sold alongside his Roches Neuves portfolio. 2017 was the first vintage bottled by the newly formed Domaine and was released alongside a second wine from the same vineyard (Les Pentes).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"richp\"\u003eFermentation began in stainless steel tank, then mid-way through the ferment, the juice was racked into a mixture of foudre and 500-litre demi-muid. 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L'Insolite's fruit traditionally comes from two densely planted vineyards on clay and limestone soils riddled with sandstone and flint. These lieux-dits—Les Cerpes and Saint-Vincent—lie close to the town of Saumur, where the oldest vines are now 90 years old. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermain presses the whole bunches long and slow before the juice naturally ferments in 1,200-litre Austrian (Stockinger) ovals and 600-litre casks (ex-Alphonse Mellot). The wine rests on fine lees, slowly building texture for another 12 months before bottling. Germain thinks of this wine as the Loire's answer to German Riesling, hence the name, which means 'unusual'. The cooler 2021 season has gifted a scintillating L'Insolite: a wine of laser-like focus with racy, grapefruit-charged flesh entwined with a nip of reduction and salty bite. 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Planted atop a ridge in Parnay, just outside Saumur, the vine roots burrow down through the limestone (Senonian-era bedrock called Pierres de Champigny) towards the famous troglodyte dwellings below. Germain acquired this historic site in 2007 and has been steadily replanting at a density of 12,000 vines per hectare. He practices massale selection, mixing plants to ensure he doesn’t get a mono-dimensional profile of this terroir. It’s one of the many Germain vineyards ploughed under the direction of Thierry Germain’s daughter, Jeanne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"richp\"\u003eHere the grapes were, of course, hand-picked, then whole-bunch pressed and fermented in neutral cask, which at this domaine can take as long as two months in the cold tufa cellars. 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Harvesting is by hand, a cold soak infusion is employed on some parcels, and the wild yeast fermentation and élevage are carried out only in tank. Aside from a minor 10 ppm SO2 at bottling, this is raised without any additions at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"richp\"\u003ePacked with youthful Saumur joie de vivre, this is a pure and pristine red with soaring red and blue fruits and some sweet spice, blue florals and earthy tones in tow. The palate is so vibrant and pure, with finely detailed flavours, fine-boned tannins, beautiful acidity and a star-bright close. It’s so crunchy and vivid it almost feels healthy to drink! 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It’s next to Guiberteau’s monopole Clos de Guichaux, on the same sandy tuffeau limestone and the vines are a mix of Chenin Blanc and old-vine Cabernet Franc. Stater-West’s landlord here is Romain Guiberteau (who crafts a red from this site) and he makes two cuvées from his one hectare of vines. The Saumur Blanc is drawn from the lower section of the vineyard, where the vines are more vigorous and yield slightly higher than the parcel Stater-West uses for the Les Chapaudaises cuvée.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grapes are simply whole-bunch-pressed and wild-fermented in stainless steel tanks. The wine stays on its lees for six months before bottling. From the high-voltage 2021 vintage, it grabs you with chalk-inflected white florals and ripe green apple scents before a palate laden with fleshy citrus and pulpy weight chiselled by razor-sharp freshness and jabbing minerals. 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The soil’s deeper structure brings more austerity, a more ‘horizontal’ profile than Les Chapaudaises. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s worth repeating that the terroir of Brézé is not typical Saumur. The vineyards are at a higher elevation than most of the surrounding areas and sit directly on a hill of tuffeau—a porous, chalky limestone intermixed with clay and sand. Something like 70% of the vineyard has less than one metre of topsoil so vines of any age must establish roots in the chalky bedrock. This terroir creates a far more citrus, floral and mineral expression of Chenin. Even in ripe and powerful vintages, the wines remain cool, pure and fresh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s hardly a large holding, yet Stater-West further reduces the yield by sorting out any less-than-perfect bunches. This inaugural Brézé bottling was crafted like Chapaudaises: aged on fine lees for 12 months in barrel followed by six months in stainless steel. Brendan uses less new wood than Guiberteau—the lion’s share of the juice is raised in barrels after their second and third uses—giving the wine a certain youthful approachability compared to his mentor’s wine. Future releases will see two winters in oak. Due to the very low pH (between 3.07 to 3.12), the malo never gets started, so Stater-West gives this wine a very low dose of sulphur (one gram per hectolitre) to prevent any ‘accidents’ happening in the bottle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a deeply alluring and complex wine packed with the fine detail, extract and vinous intensity that are crucial features of Brézé’s finest wines. It lures you in with bright and perfumed citrus, florals and savoury herbs before electrifying your taste buds with its potent fruit and generous texture draped in crystalline acidity and chalky structure. The persistent, saline-drenched finish is worth the price of admission alone. It’s what you could call a serious bit of kit. 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Despite its youthful deliciousness, it has more depth than you might expect, and it drinks like a wine that should age quite well. But why wait? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is lovely stuff. With a little more wattage than last year’s wine, it’s so inviting and bursting with freshness and vibrancy. Fresh and pure blue fruits align beautifully with warm spices, earth and an invigorating mineral charge. The structure is spot on; seamless, supple tannins, crunchy energy and a reaching finish. Despite its youthful deliciousness, it has more depth than you might expect, and it drinks like a wine that should age quite well. 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It’s aged on lees in ex-Guiberteau barrels (mostly 2-5 years old) with one new barrel added each year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"richp\" sugg=\"true\"\u003eAs expected, you’ll find more amplitude and intensity than in the Saumur Rouge, yet there is a surge of vibrancy and lift to maintain the producer’s refreshing signature. Earth and spice are joined by deep berry and black raspberry flavours, while the enveloping structures and juicy fruit drive a lingering and focused close. The balance between the fruit and the limestone-derived form is mouth-watering. 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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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vineyard is picked slightly earlier than Guiberteau’s Clos de Guichaux, and Stater-West works with fewer lees than his colleague, giving a Chenin of radiant succulence, cut-glass precision and sappy length. The 2020 was fermented naturally in stainless steel and then aged in used, large-format barrels (sourced from Louis-Benjamin Dagueneau) for 14 months. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a par with the 2019 release, it’s rocky, overtly mineral and flush with flavours of citrus, iodine and a touch of fennel. Lithe and full of engaging clarity, the palate balances its fleshy, citrus-noted fruit and limpid succulence with chiselled freshness, a mass of energy and a lovely phenolic bite. The finish ripples to a long, salty close. 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The site is the classic clay\/limestone of the region but has only 30cm of topsoil before the roots plunge directly into the pure, chalky bedrock. It’s a site quickly cementing its place as one of Saumur’s finest white vineyards—thanks to wines like this. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2020 is a perfectly ripe yet strikingly energetic white with all the trademark savoury, mineral drive one expects from this domaine. This wine is fermented and raised for 12 months on lees in two- to four-year-old barrels (600-litre, light-toast Atelier Centre France and François Frères that had previously housed the Brézé cuvée), followed by six months in tank. If 2019 was more Riesling-esque, the new vintage points to Chassange in its range of grilled stone fruit and rocky complexity. The Guichaux did not go through malo this year, and alongside its lovely transparency and purity, the palate prickles with energy and tension. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This cuvée comes from a warm terroir in Épieds, south-east of Brézé. It has been matured in a barrel for one year and has seen no malolactic fermentation. Aromatically this feels attractively challenging, with suggestions of crushed rocks and saline minerals. There is a touch of roast to the fruits, led by peach and apricot, spiced up with star anise. 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This striking wine comes from two small parcels of mature vines (planted in 1933 and 1952) within the fabled Brézé climat, a terroir that once produced wines equally as revered as those of the greatest vineyards of Burgundy and Bordeaux. One-quarter of the fruit is also drawn from the historic Clos de Carmes terroir, introduced below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuiberteau now uses larger-format barrels from different coopers. He has found he prefers Atelier Centre France’s thick-staved demi-muids for this wine (he’s also engaged Clos Rougeard’s local cooper to supply some barrels). Another evolution in the élevage is that the Brézé now spends two winters in a barrel, followed by six months in a tank, recognising both the potency and coiled energy gifted by its terroirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYear in and year out, this is a wine to remind us of the force of this incredible terroir; which can simultaneously deliver the texture and savoury reduction of great white Burgundy and the raciness of great German Riesling. If the Clos de Guichaux can remind of excellent Chablis, the Brézé style leans towards the textural richness of fine Meursault (at a fraction of the price). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRight now, it is an intense orb of profound energy bursting with all kinds of white fruits, sweet florals and white minerals alongside this wine’s classic smoky, reductive notes. In the mouth, you get the extraordinary density of top ‘Chenin de Brézé’ but also a wave of uplifting freshness and a line of phenolic tension cutting through the core. 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