Brendan Stater-West Saumur Les Chapaudaises Blanc 2020 nerello-cappuccio After all the years I

After all the years I don’t really understand it but hope to get fruit flavour and savoury characters

food-friendly wine is full of flavour and texture

and floral aspects in balance

dried herb and bay laurel

loose and laden with gravel

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Les Chapaudaises Blanc 2020 nerello-cappuccio After all the years IThe 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