Domaine Filliatreau, Saumur-Champigny Vieilles Vignes, 2009 giftnote-exclude With its complexity and elegance

With its complexity and elegance

or mountain whites with tension and texture

offering brown sugar

and a touch of grapefruit zest

with layers of hazelnut

Domaine Filliatreau, Saumur-Champigny Vieilles Vignes, 2009 giftnote-exclude With its complexity and eleganceFilliatreau's Vieilles Vignes is the cuve that defined modern Saumur Champigny the estate's founder, Paul Filliatreau, reshaped the whole appellation's reputation for Cabernet Franc, and this old vine bottling is the flagship. It comes from mature parcels around the historic hamlet of Chaintres, on shallow soils over the Turonian tuffeau chalk that gives Saumur Champigny its signature freshness and mineral cut. This is the 2009, a famously warm, ripe