This is a new producer for us that we discovered back in March at La Levée de la Loire, a tasting of organic producers in Saumur. Clairisse and her husband Quentin Dhommé have been organically farming their 25 hectares property since 2011. They harvest all their fruit by hand and only use indigenous yeasts. The couple make a number of excellent wines that we've brought into America for the first time. The Savennières (one of the more prestigious appellations in the Loire) comes from sandy soils that lay atop green schist and quartz subsoils. Fermentation takes place in barrels, and the wine goes through partial malolactic. These flavors run deeper, with a subtle smoky note that weaves its way through the substantial apple-scented fruit. Importer Notes
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