Damien Laureau Savennieres Le Bel Ouvrage, Loire, France 2016 Uco Valley It’s a thrill a minute

It’s a thrill a minute and doesn’t pull any punches

stony aromas

This is always a delightful and exotic white and shows guava peel

offering nutty aromas tinged with honey

Notes of  sarsaparilla

Damien Laureau Savennieres Le Bel Ouvrage, Loire, France 2016 Uco Valley It’s a thrill a minuteThis Chenin Blanc, the 2016 Le Bel Ouvrage, is now starting to throw off its youth and develop aging characters of lanolin and earthy notes alongside cooked pineapple. There's clearly been a lot of care put into this wine the delicacy and transparency of the juice is fabulous and although it packs plenty of power and drive, presumably from the schist and rhyolite soils, it does so in an elegant and light footed way. There's no sense of being forced,