2024 Chai de la Dive Les Moulins Saumur Blanc

2024 Chai de la Dive Les Moulins Saumur BlancRomain Guiberteau has been a towering figure within the Loire Valley, making some of the most compelling and electric dry chenins in Saumur. With this wine, we found a rare opportunity to present the oft hard to find and impossible to hold onto producer with a little more regularity. Chai de la Dive is Romain's negociant project, but there's nothing lesser about this wine. Working with the same vineyards and produced in the same style as his eponymous

we find perfect ripeness

forever and ever

This comes from all three sites

black currant

with a slight addition of sulphur at bottling (about 10 mg)

no one goes to these lengths

hand-harvested

and wet earth flavors we expect (think Northern Rhone meets Iberia) -- but there's an elegance and vibrant acidity here that make this truly special

honeyed green tea

It’s brimming with ripe raspberries

And at an easy-breezy 11

or to cross the River Styx: you’ll make the friends you need real fast