2018 Brendan Stater-West Saumur Blanc Les Chapaudaises

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  9/24/2023 - NickNYC Likes this wine: 89 Points

  bottle drunk over several days and did not change much. nose not very complex, mainly white fruits and grape. the velocity of the palate make this wine intriguing. good but was expected a bit more.

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  1/7/2021 - jrick wrote: 88 Points

  Drunk over time through Coravin, now emptied the final 40% or so. A bit too lean for me, not what I expected from a 2018. Very lemonad, steely, vegetal. Better with more air and at a higher temperature than straight out of the fridge, but nowhere near as exciting as I was hoping it would be, seeing at least one previous vintage getting high praise. Maybe the next bottle with some rest will offer more breadth of flavour.

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  9/22/2020 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 90 Points

  These are new wines to me so we popped it while cooking and I tried it over several days. The first day it was pretty tight and lean with that aloe thing I've come to identify with a sort of acidic, vegetal fruit note. Steph wasn't crazy about it. It improved over the coming couple of days and showed a bit more fruit as it uncoiled a bit. Seems a bit more concentrated than Guiberteau in style, for a comparison. I might grab a couple more bottles to track. For the record, I'm kinda jealous of the proprietor if I didn't know better starting a domain in Saumur seems awesome.

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