Domaine des Baumard Savennières Trie Spéciale 2010 (96 W&S)
“Selected over the course of a series of passes through Baumard’s 10-acre vineyard in Savennières, aged for nine months in stainless steel on the fine lees, this is a wine that keeps getting better each time you pass it by your nose and take a luscious sip. Immediately, it buzzes with quince flavor, delicate to the touch, expansive and bold as the fruit crests in a wave over sandstone and schist. What may seem at first merely delicious becomes numinous as it engages with oxygen, capturing the grandeur of the Loire more often appreciated in the châteaux and ancient cathedrals than in a young chenin blanc. Cellar this for ten years for a grand tour of Savennières.”
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Domaine des Baumard Savennières Trie Spéciale 2010
Savennières
Baumard’s Savennières Trie Spéciale bottling is in many ways the apotheosis of the appellation, and is produced only in great years (’89, ’90, ’95, ’97, ’00, ’10, ’14 to date). Exceptionally ripe bunches are hand-harvested in successive passes (‘tries’) through the estate vineyard, resulting in a concentrated wine of enormous structure and intensity, requiring many years to unwind into a lanolin-textured wine with flavors of stone fruits, spices, and minerals, and great length. One of France’s greatest white wines.
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Domaine des Baumard
Loire Valley, France
Consistently recognized for producing some of the most extraordinary dry white wines in the Loire and in France, Domaine des Baumard has been under the ownership of the same family for nearly 400 years. Winemaker Florent Baumard runs the estate with meticulous care, crafting extraordinary wines that bely his soft-spoken, gentle manner. Baumard produces a range of styles, though the domaine is most famous for its stunning sweet wines from the storied Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru.