Brendan Stater-West Saumur Rouge La Ripaille
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La Ripaille is a 2022 Saumur Rouge from the Loire Valley in France, made from Cabernet Franc by Brendan Stater-West.
Stater-West came to France about ten years ago to teach English in Paris. A coworker introduced him to professional wine tastings, and he left teaching to study wine and work in retail at Spring, a small shop in the 1st arrondissement owned by American chef Daniel Rose. There he tasted Domaine Guiberteau's Brézé 2008 and was struck by the limestone terroir in Chenin. He persuaded Romain Guiberteau to take him on as an apprentice, studied for a BTS Viti-Oeno and worked full-time at the domaine. In 2015 Guiberteau offered him one hectare in Les Chapaudaises, where he makes his own wines.