Arnaud Lambert Saumur Blanc Les Parcelles 2023 FRFLSH sweet with notes of toasted

sweet with notes of toasted wood

letting it rest on its fine lees without racking until it is time to bottle

Champagne of body and spirit made by the marriage of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay

6% ABV that spent three months on foeders and four months in steel tanks on local strawberry and rhubarb from Oregon

Arnaud Lambert Saumur Blanc Les Parcelles 2023 FRFLSH sweet with notes of toastedThis is the easiest way into Arnaud Lambert's range, and it is no shortcut wine: roughly 85% comes from young vines in his top crus at Breze and Saint Cyr en Bourg, with the balance from Chenin Blanc grown outside Saumur. Everything sits on the tuffeau limestone bedrock that made Breze famous, under varying topsoils of clay and sand. Lambert farms more than 40 hectares organically across three communes, and the winemaking here is deliberately