2015 Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Les Chapaudaises

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  3/11/2024 - acyso wrote: 88 Points

  Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): Very different from my last experience with this. The greenness isn't there anymore. It's a fairly clean chenin, with modest acidity, but it does suffer from a slightly natty bent, showing a very sappy quality to the fruit and a bit of browning quality. It's not my preferred style of chenin, but a fine enough bottle.

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  2/13/2022 - Bakerbd Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Med - body, floral, orchard fruit, mineral

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  6/14/2021 - grafstrb wrote: 90 Points

  -- popped and poured --
  -- tasted non-blind over 2 hours --
  
  NOSE: moderately expressive, with hints of grass and freshly-crushed coriander seed; a faint little cologne (aquatic) note.
  
  BODY: light maize color of medium intensity; medium bodied.
  
  TASTE: lots of mineral; medium concentration of fruit --- light apple/pear combo, leaning more in the direction of pear (Anjou); doesn't seem to have the stuffing to age very long (with acknowledgement it's already 6 years post-vintage); more on the mineral/herb spectrum than fruity/acid; 12.5% alc. not noticeable; medium to medium+ acidity; honestly, a bit of a let-down given others' glowing reports and the fact that it's from the 2015 vintage. gut: 90 - 91. Drink Now through 2023.
  
  50, 5, 12, 16, 7 = 90

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  1/23/2021 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 90 Points

  My first stab at a Brendan Stater-West with even a little bit of age. This may have been his first vintage with this wine. This shows a sweet tart style of Chenin with a nice dose of mineral tension. It lacks a middle to bring things together in a cohesive whole; however, this was promising enough that I might buy a couple of bottles of the current vintage to lay down to see what happens.

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  10/4/2020 - lovanc@outlook.com wrote:

  Delicious rich but light on the palate wine. Assuming high acidity due to the lightness but well balanced by the other components.

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