Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 JURARARE produced at the Springbank distillery

produced at the Springbank distillery

Manent is their Aglianico bottling

They are blended into an excellent cognac defined by its graceful

also goes well with summer salads

and a bit more clay in the soil lends richness without dulling the salinity

Antoine Sanzay Saumur Les Salles Martin Blanc 2022 JURARARE produced at the Springbank distilleryAntoine 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