Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc 2023 JURARARE Cooked in shallow pits fueled

Cooked in shallow pits fueled by willow and oak

it recalls wild black fruit

and crushed stones

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complex companion for aperitif hour

Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc 2023 JURARARE Cooked in shallow pits fueledIt takes a certain kind of American to move to France and make wine there. Brendan Stater West went to Paris to teach English, fell hard for wine working at the wine shop attached to Daniel Rose's Paris restaurant Spring, got smitten by Chenin, moved to Saumur, and talked Romain Guiberteau into a job. He became Guiberteau's right hand, then started bottling his own. He now stands in a quietly legendary lineage: Foucault (of Clos Rougeard) to