Philippe Gilbert, Sauvignon Blanc, Menetou-Salon, Loire Valley, France 2023 merch Calrose is a table rice

Calrose is a table rice that gives a different expression than usual sake rice

vines and grapes

complemented by zesty acids for a linear mineral finish

This is created in the vineyards and finds expression in the grapes

Philippe Gilbert, Sauvignon Blanc, Menetou-Salon, Loire Valley, France 2023 merch Calrose is a table ricePhilippe Gilberts stellar Menetou Salon Blanc is unfailingly mineral driven, yet without the straitjacketed citrusy rigidity more conventionally and commercially minded Loire Sauvignon Blanc frequently displays. A sense of lusciousness, distinct from viscosity, provides a texturally attractive counterpoint to the rapier like acidity, and nods ever so glancingly to its upstream Chenin Blanc based cousins, yet this is unmistakably Kimmeridgian grown