Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 campaign-feature powerful wine

powerful wine

The fermentation was let to go extra long for this rum so the congener count was up to 502

more immediately drinkable frame

while Sébastien's strict farming and gentle extraction keep it focused

almost citrusy pepper heat on the finish

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze 2023 campaign-feature powerful wineBrz 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