TN: Baumard Savennieres 2000 Trie Speciale

[Carema]

For a moment it reminds me of my child's apple juice (mott's in the box with a push-in straw) but then after about an hour the florals hit- jasmine & hibiscus. This little infant is laden with minerality. It's not ready. I cannot leave it here at work so I pour a little into an empty Fiji water bottle. It rattles around on the car floor and stays there, overnight until I discover it the next morning. Sniff-- still not ready. I put it open on the nightstand and do the day then fall asleep again. I awake finally and see the bottle in the hazy morning a pale straw color glowing and beckoning. I take a little sip- it's finally ready!!! So I guess I will go poach an egg.

[Craig Camp]

Poor chenin blanc. The Rodney Dangerfield of grapes. In the Loire it is one of the world's great white wines.