Domaine du Collier Saumur La Charpentrie 2020 Chardonnay finishing with freshness and poise

finishing with freshness and poise

elevated hillside terrace 150 meters above the Waihopai Valley floor

chalky mineral grip

red cherries

precision and quiet authority that reflects Lafarge's house style of making wines built to evolve gracefully in the cellar rather than seduce immediately in the glass

Domaine du Collier Saumur La Charpentrie 2020 Chardonnay finishing with freshness and poiseAntoine Foucault established Domaine du Collier in 1999 carrying with him the knowledge absorbed at his family's legendary Clos Rougeard, but it is the whites of Saumur that have come to define his own estate's identity. La Charpentrie is sourced from century old vines on the hillsides of Brz, where the tuffeau limestone terroir was historically considered so prized it was exchanged barrel for barrel with Chteau d'Yquem. The vineyards are organically