Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 SF Chronicle specializing in expressive Grand Cru

specializing in expressive Grand Cru Champagnes from the Montagne de Reims and Côte des Blancs

just honest fruit and mineral tension

and alive with the character of northeastern Italy's signature white

and a delicate finish

A timeless style of sake that old-world wine drinkers easily gravitate to

Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 SF Chronicle specializing in expressive Grand CruAntoine Sanzay took back his grandparents' vines from the local cooperative in Saint Cyr en Bourg in the late 1990s and has been quietly building one of Saumur's most reliable addresses ever since. Les Salles Martin is his Saumur Blanc, 100% Chenin from a small parcel of forty year old vines on clay over the chalky tuffeau limestone that defines this corner of the Loire. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in demi muids, partly new, for around