2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet This is a saignée rosé

This is a saignée rosé that used both the cuvée and a small portion of taille

but was the term used in the past to describe the flat limestone tiles used to cover the roofs

AROMA: Floral/dill

and cleaned every bottle by hand on one long day in February 2023

mostly limestone soil

2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet This is a saignée roséLike Sylvain Dittiere's single vineyard reds, his Saumur Champigny is destemmed and fermented using native yeasts in fiberglass tank. After 6 weeks of maceration, the free run (2 3) and press wine (1 3) is fed into used Bordeaux type barrels, where it ages for 18 months before blending and bottling.