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

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

Red Traminer

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

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.