Clos Rougeard, Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux, 2010 SO040226 Yvonne at the gates of Saint-Estephe

at the gates of Saint-Estephe

Les Bressandes sits on brown clay and gravel (grèze litée) on vines planted in the 1980s

Gallina represents Busso's roundest

this is a wine built on a scale that has nothing to do with the Valpolicella of your average pizza night

Salvo Foti's consortium uniting like-minded Sicilian traditionalists

Clos Rougeard, Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux, 2010 SO040226 Yvonne at the gates of Saint-EstepheOne of the Loire's most coveted reds, from a vintage worth waiting for. Clos Rougeard, near Chace in Saumur Champigny, made Cabernet Franc into a vin de garde long before the region was fashionable, fermenting in old cement vats and aging in barrel with almost nothing changed across generations. Les Poyeux comes from older vines on a gentle south facing slope of eroded sandstone over tuffeau in Chace, one of the estate's great single vineyard cuvees,