Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out This minerally intense Riesling captures

This minerally intense Riesling captures the distinctive character of its steep

a long saline finish

and at twenty-plus years this Ducru is drinking generously - exotic fruit

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Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out This minerally intense Riesling capturesRomain Guiberteau, the Clos Rougeard trained star of Saumur, draws Le Bourg from a single 1. 07 hectare parcel just below Clos des Carmes on the hill of Brez. The vines were planted in the early 1940s on sandy clay over soft limestone; the wine is organic, ambient yeast fermented and aged about a year in used barrels, with malolactic blocked. It's the old vine sibling to the Carmes, a touch more open and aromatic but every bit as serious. The 2023 is