Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 GERAUS Perfectly paired and working in

Perfectly paired and working in unison

planted on sandstone soils with lots of quartz at 500 meters

Sakai-san’s focus with the Shinomine range is to craft balanced and acid-driven sake that showcases the rice type along with the ability to age gracefully

white sage

barrel fermented in French oak and aged sur lie for eleven months

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 GERAUS Perfectly paired and working inLa 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