Domaine des Baumard Savennières Trie Spéciale 2010 (96 W&S)

“Selected over the course of a series of passes through Baumard’s 10-acre vineyard in Savennières, aged for nine months in stainless steel on the fine lees, this is a wine that keeps getting better each time you pass it by your nose and take a luscious sip. Immediately, it buzzes with quince flavor, delicate to the touch, expansive and bold as the fruit crests in a wave over sandstone and schist. What may seem at first merely delicious becomes numinous as it engages with oxygen, capturing the grandeur of the Loire more often appreciated in the châteaux and ancient cathedrals than in a young chenin blanc. Cellar this for ten years for a grand tour of Savennières.”