Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze l'Ardillon 2022 070226CRISP The 2021 vintage offered excellent

The 2021 vintage offered excellent day-night temperature variations that yielded complex aromatics and pronounced freshness

Edith & Ida is the natural-leaning project from Hobo Wine Company in Santa Rosa

This one earns it

and red-fruit lift

and finishes with a mineral snap

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Breze l'Ardillon 2022 070226CRISP The 2021 vintage offered excellentL'Ardillon is a specific south facing parcel within Brz, the storied limestone hilltop that defines great Saumur Chenin. It is also Brendan Stater West's most prestigious bottling: a 0. 38 hectare plot of old vines planted in the 1950s on 80 cm of clay loam over Turonian limestone, farmed organically, harvested whole cluster, fermented with indigenous yeast, and aged 24 months on lees in barrel before another five months in tank. Stater West (American