{"id":2187,"date":"2017-11-21T21:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:37:30","slug":"serious-samur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2017\/11\/21\/serious-samur\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Saumur"},"content":{"rendered":"

We often make the joke that if a purveyor brings an average wine buyer three wines, he will buy one.\u00a0 If they bring him 10, he will buy one.\u00a0 We are geared a little differently.\u00a0 We don\u2019t believe in token buys.\u00a0 If we taste 20 wines and aren\u2019t thoroughly jazzed with any of them, we buy zero.\u00a0 By the same token, if someone brings in three exceptional wines, we\u2019ll buy all three.\u00a0 That happened on the day we tasted the Haut Baigneux wines.\u00a0 The purveyor also had in tow the Yvonne Saumur Blanc 2015<\/strong><\/a>, which thrilled even given the stiff competition.<\/p>\n

There has been vineyards around this chateau in Parnay since the Middle-ages and the building itself dates back to the 1500s.\u00a0 It was abandoned when Yvonne and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lamuni\u00e8re took over here in 1997 with the intent of revitalizing the estate.\u00a0 Matheiu Vallee took over in 2007 and kept their name on the property as an hommage<\/em> to the work the Lamuni\u00e8res had done.\u00a0 The property has been organic since 1997 and went biodynamic in 2012.<\/p>\n

There are 3 hectares of Chenin Blanc in clay-over-tuffeau (the fine grained local limestone).\u00a0 Perhaps a little more intentional gravitas here, the wine is fermented slowly over four months and malolactic occurs in oak, 30% new, and it is bottled unfiltered.\u00a0 Oak doesn\u2019t always play well with Chenin but it is clearly enlightened and perfectly integrated in this case.\u00a0 There are a few more \u2018bass\u2019 notes to the quince and yellow pit fruit flavors, with a little more Chardonnay like feel in the mouth and a salty character that is somewhat Chablis like. \u00a0Serious stuff here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We often make the joke that if a purveyor brings an average wine buyer three wines, he will buy one.\u00a0 If they bring him 10, he will buy one.\u00a0 We are geared a little differently.\u00a0 We don\u2019t believe in token buys.\u00a0 If we taste 20 wines and aren\u2019t thoroughly jazzed with any of them, we … Continue reading “Serious Saumur”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[155,85,157,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}