2022 Sylvain Dittiere, Saumur-Champigny, La Porte Saint Jean Cuvee_Arneis

2022 Sylvain Dittiere, Saumur-Champigny, La Porte Saint Jean Cuvee_ArneisSylvain Dittire operates with a philosophy of minimal intervention, employing strictly organic farming and native yeast fermentations to translate the specific conditions of his Saumur Champigny parcels into the glass. The vineyard sites are defined by a complex mosaic of sand, silt, and clay topsoils sitting directly atop a Jurassic limestone subsoil, which provides the drainage and mineral foundation necessary for high quality Cabernet Franc. In the

expressive fruit

This is very much in a fruit-forward

Very chalky soils

contribution of vineyard holdings

transparent architecture

south-facing slopes in Irouléguy where the vines are rooted in red sandstone

Catherine and Pierre Breton have long defined the vanguard of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the Loire

This Second Growth exhibits a sophisticated architecture built on a foundation of fine-grained

Claude and Katherine Blankiet’s Paradise Hills Vineyard is managed with a focus on high-density planting and precise viticultural stewardship to produce an estate-bottled expression of concentrated phenolic depth

opulent expressions of the region

The site itself sits on the eastern edge of the village on thin

They do not use chemicals in the vineyard and rely solely on native yeasts for fermentation