Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2022 (1.5L) web-unpublished and pear with a subtle

and pear with a subtle umami background

it opens with wild strawberry

and the bitterness of chewed citrus peel are perceived

His family sharecropped this hillside in Lamole from the early 1900s and finally bought it outright in 1962

Joe Phelps was a Colorado construction magnate who came to Napa in the early 1970s to build a winery for someone else and ended up building one for himself

Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2022 (1.5L) web-unpublished and pear with a subtleFrom Romain Guiberteau, the Clos Rougeard trained star of Saumur, Le Bourg is a single 1. 07 hectare parcel just below Clos des Carmes on the hill of Brez, planted to Chenin in the early 1940s on sandy clay over soft limestone. Organic, ambient yeast fermented and aged about a year in used barrels, it is Guiberteau's old vine expression of the great Brez terroir, more open and aromatic than the Carmes, no less serious. The 2022 in magnum will reward