Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 061126OFFER fruit and butterscotch

fruit and butterscotch

Jean-Marie Guffens is the Belgian who shook up the Maconnais

A serious rose with a Levantine accent

while the cool 2021 vintage only sharpened its focus

and blackberry alongside mineral salinity and hints of mocha

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 061126OFFER fruit and butterscotchLa Ripaille is a west facing lieu dit on the Brz hill where 1960s planted Cabernet Franc digs into sandy loam over Turonian limestone. Brendan Stater West, the Oregon born expat now in the direct lineage of Clos Rougeard and Domaine Guiberteau, is only the second grower ever to bottle from this parcel. The wine is fully de stemmed, fermented with indigenous yeast, and built by infusion (no pump overs, no punch downs), then aged a year on lees in