Winemaker Notes
This wine goes great with pork in all forms: rillettes, chops or roast. The wine’s versatility makes it wonderful with beef and chicken too.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2016 Saumur-Champigny Tuffe opens floral, pure and fresh on the delicate and airy nose, with its dark berry, cassis and licorice aromas. A bistro wine par excellence, this is a light-weight, snappy, fresh and straight Cabernet Franc with delicate tannin grip and vivacious, refreshing acidity. Bone dry but fruity and full of character. Raspberry and blueberry flavors in the aftertaste. Roast beef or rump steak should be terrific with this 2016—and certainly French fries. Tasted February 2019.
Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.
Marked by great châteaux built with the same tuffeau limestone that is also responsible for the excavation of so many of the famed Loire caves, Saumur is famous for its Chenin blanc based sparkling wines. Inside the Saumur region, Saumur-Champigny creates some of the Loire’s greatest Cabernet Francs.