Domaine Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Brézé 2015

Domaine Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Brézé comes from just over a hectare of Chenin Blanc planted in 1933 and 1952 on the hill that has long been Saumur's most celebrated site for white wine.

The Brézé hill rises south of Saumur, a mound of limestone honeycombed with cellars cut into the rock, and its whites were traded and ranked highly well before the modern appellation existed. Guiberteau's fruit for this bottling comes from two plots totalling 1.07 hectares on sandy clay over a soft limestone bedrock, planted before the war and again in the early 1950s, which makes them among the oldest vines on the estate. Romain Guiberteau took the family vines at Mollay in hand in 1996 and farms organically, certified AB since 2007, at 5,500 vines to the hectare. The fruit is sorted at harvest, pressed in whole bunches and fermented with ambient yeasts; malolactic conversion is blocked, and the wine is aged fifteen to eighteen months on lees in demi-muids and barrels before a further spell in steel.

Closed in youth and better after a few years, or with a decant. Serve at 10-12°C with roast pork, turbot or a mature comté.

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