Guiberteau Saumur Blanc 2023 (1.5L) 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 and balancing the dark fruit

and balancing the dark fruit are notes of smoke

A stunningly complex Japanese bottling from both grain and single malt whiskies aged in a variety of casks

The same extraordinary Paradis blend—100+ eaux-de-vie aged 25 to 130+ years—in a limited-edition bottle celebrating the 2026 Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse)

A blend of Jamaican pot and column still rum

barrel fermented in French oak and aged sur lie for eleven months

Guiberteau Saumur Blanc 2023 (1.5L) 2025 L'Assemblage Part 2 and balancing the dark fruitRomain Guiberteau is one of those producers who provokes the big question what matters more, winemaking or terroir? He learned from Nady Foucault at Clos Rougeard after dropping out of law school, and now stands as arguably the leading star of the New Loire movement. Farming is organic; new oak is minimal; and the approach gets more hands off every vintage which, as Romain has shown, doesn't mean less skill but more. This is his entry Saumur Blanc, a