Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 GERAUS with bright fruit interwoven with

with bright fruit interwoven with stony

or anything that refuses easy categorization

Al Posto dei Fiori means "in place of flowers

This is Côte de Nuits in white

white sage

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 GERAUS with bright fruit interwoven withLa 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