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Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc 2024

Name: Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc 2024
Brand: Veritas [VER]
SKU: SF-4-VER--050426-21
Price: 26.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

$26⁹⁹

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Saumur Chenin with Clos Rougeard DNA running through it. Brendan Stater-West came to Paris to teach English, fell hard enough for Chenin Blanc to move to Saumur, and talked his way into a job as Romain Guiberteau's right-hand man before starting his own very small domaine. The fruit comes off organically certified vines on Saumur's tuffeau limestone, whole-cluster pressed and fermented with ambient yeasts; the wines run so low in pH that malolactic conversion sometimes never happens at all, which is a large part of why they taste the way they do. Élevage is short and deliberately neutral — used barrels and steel, no bâtonnage — so the wine arrives lean, saline and finely drawn rather than broad. Even the capsules get waxed by hand, which tells you how much of this is done one bottle at a time.

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If the wine is less than 10 years old and it is corked, you may return it to us for a full refund or exchange within 60 days of purchase. You must show us proof of purchase. We understand that you may not live near a shop and that it is difficult to ship open bottles of wine to us, so if there's any problem feel free to Contact Us and we'll work it out.
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We may, at our discretion and to the extent permitted by law, accept returns of unopened wines within 30 days of purchase if they were properly stored by the purchaser, subject to a 15% re-stocking fee.

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More about Brendan Stater-West

A little over a decade ago, young expat Brendan Stater-West, then working as a waiter in Paris, had an "aha!" moment drinking a bottle of cult-producer Romain Guiberteau's top white, Brézé. Soon after, he talked his way into a job at that venerable Saumur address, where he still works as Guiberteau's assistant winemaker.

Stater-West has been making his own wines in recent years, though, and they're seriously good in their own right. Stylistically, they're somewhat less oaky and tannic that those he makes at Guiberteau, and a bit more delicate and saline.

This budding domaine has access to some truly exceptional terroirs. Astute Loire lovers will recognize the names Ripaille and Brézè – two of Saumur's very best sites for Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc, respectively