FabIen Duveau

– Saumur Champigny

One of the most exciting new producers to join this year’s list. We could speak of the 14th century cellars, the organics, the biodiversity programme, the 40 different individual plots, the vivid fruit, vibrant flavours and sheer exuberance and joyfulness of ‘Les Menais’. We could mention the dark, cerebral, challenging depths of ‘Le Bourg’ or the startling radiance deep in the heart of ‘Les Hunaudieres’. We could try (and fail) to describe how here ‘minimalist approach’ feels like an obvious and fundamental truth rather than a nice marketing line. Energy, freshness, delicacy, purity… you really have to have the wine in the glass in front of you for it to make sense, so instead we’ll go with; we like him, we know you’ll like him too… ladies and gentlemen… all the way from Saumur… big hand please… Mr Fabien Duveau!