Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out La Croix sits just next

La Croix sits just next to the famous Cross of Corton on the east/south-east slope in Aloxe-Corton

This minerally intense Riesling captures the distinctive character of its steep

a long saline finish

and it is widely held to be one of the greatest rosé wines on earth — a wine of color

Guiberteau Saumur Blanc Le Bourg 2023 event-sold-out La Croix sits just nextRomain Guiberteau, the Clos Rougeard trained star of Saumur, draws Le Bourg from a single 1. 07 hectare parcel just below Clos des Carmes on the hill of Brez. The vines were planted in the early 1940s on sandy clay over soft limestone; the wine is organic, ambient yeast fermented and aged about a year in used barrels, with malolactic blocked. It's the old vine sibling to the Carmes, a touch more open and aromatic but every bit as serious. The 2023 is