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

mostly limestone soil

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

Bénigne Joliet considers that there are four separate terroirs here and each is vinified and aged separately and blended just before bottling

Cold carbonic maceration for 10 days

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.