Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 NO20230830 now fully mature

now fully mature

20% Chardonnay from the Valle de la Marne

an old local name for the hives that once worked this hillside

unfolding with waves of green apple

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 NO20230830 now fully matureBrz 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