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

a Rosenthal find in the village of Loche

and today they would rather blast hot air through the vines than spray them

Lorenzo Accomasso is one of Barolo's last true legends

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