2020 Savennières Le Bel Ouvrage, Damien Laureau
Dry | White | Still
This parcel is one of Damien’s most prized sites, with rhyolite soil (he is very precise when it comes to describing the geology here), which is a “hot” soil, giving greater maturity than the schist soils across most of the appellation where tension is the signature. Having said all that, this wine does show remarkable tension, twinned with a deep and pithy persistence. It has a beautiful bitter length. The 2020 is less overtly tropical compared with previous vintages, trading more on the saline, nutty attitude of Chenin.
Ready: 2023 - 2033