Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 RFLASH Thibaud bought the plot in

Thibaud bought the plot in 2014 and replanted with massale selection the following year

From the producer: The latest addition to the Principal Collection

The 2024 is delicious now and will hold

with the structure to run at least five more years

more elegant style of Pommard than the village's brawnier reputation suggests

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille 2023 RFLASH Thibaud bought the plot 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