2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet and cleaned every bottle by

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

Fermented with indigenous yeast and undergoing no malolactic fermentation

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

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

Cold carbonic maceration for 10 days

2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet and cleaned every bottle byLike 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.