Damien Laureau Savennieres Le Bel Ouvrage, Loire, France 2018 Auntsfield Lots of beautiful and ripe

Lots of beautiful and ripe fruit here

offering a lovely texture and refinement

Features roasted alder and juniper out front

mocha and underbrush waft out of emerge from the glass

lavender and almond skin

Damien Laureau Savennieres Le Bel Ouvrage, Loire, France 2018 Auntsfield Lots of beautiful and ripeThis cuve is sourced from vines planted on schist near Beauprau, but also takes fruit from the vines on rhyolite in Chambourcier, further down the slope. In this vintage the harvest was finished before Les Genets, which perhaps explains Damiens anxiety around that cuve. The fermentation and levage was the same as Les Genets, and it was bottled in May 2020. The nose is broad and energetic, with richly spiced white peach, in an expressive and smoky