Domaine Arnaud Lambert
Domaine Arnaud Lambert Saumur Blanc la Rue - (Brézé) 2020
Domaine Arnaud Lambert Saumur Blanc la Rue - (Brézé) 2020
A stony, structured character with plenty of acidity as well as ripe apricot and sweet apple flavors. The crispness is tamed by the wood aging to give a ripe, plush wine.
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The southern-facing Clos de la Rue is the warmest vineyard on the hill of Breze and is reasonably insulated from the heavy gusts of wind that circle it. If you were to look at a thermal graph of average temperatures you would see a perfectly long rectangle that would show the most warm color from the key. The soil is sandy limestone on top, 25cm down you find clay and then another 10cm further, tuffeau limestone. The clay and warmth make this wine’s dimensions powerful. Its closest comparison is Guiberteau’s Clos de Carmes.
Variety: 100% Chenin Blanc
Vine Age: 1 hectare planted in 1965, 1 hectare planted in 1990
Viticulture: Organic methods since 2009.
Elevage: 12 months in barrel, followed by 6 months in tank.
Vinification: Grapes are hand-harvested and sorted in the vineyards. Indigenous yeast fermentation in oak barrels (35% new and the rest one to two wines’ old).
Malolactic fermentation is blocked naturally due to very low pH (generally around 3.0).
The Producer
Arnaud Lambert joined the winery founded by his father in 2005. The domaine covers about 30 hectares of vineyards in the appellations of Saumur and Saumur-Champigny. The viticulture was converted organic in 2009 and biodynamic in 2018, in the pursuit to un-earth the true potential of each terroir. Today, Arnaud is known as one of the most prominent Loire growers practising low-intervention, precise winemaking, remarkably distinguished from the mass-producing cooperatives that dominate the region.
