Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 CRV Aromas of fresh spices: pepper

Aromas of fresh spices: pepper

licorice-like finish

with chamomile

where the original waterwheel system now powers a hydro-electric facility that makes Deanston the only fully energy-self-sufficient distillery in Scotland—they even sell surplus electricity back to the grid

The palate is poised and sophisticated

Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 CRV Aromas of fresh spices: pepperAntoine Sanzay took back his grandparents' vines from the local cooperative in Saint Cyr en Bourg in the late 1990s and has been quietly building one of Saumur's most reliable addresses ever since. Les Salles Martin is his Saumur Blanc, 100% Chenin from a small parcel of forty year old vines on clay over the chalky tuffeau limestone that defines this corner of the Loire. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in demi muids, partly new, for around