Champagne Rosé de Saignée

The Champagne Rosé de Saignée is the result of a very precise elaboration. 

The grapes used are Pinot Noir and Meunier, the two black grape varieties of Champagne, from the same harvest. It is therefore a matter of Millésimes, whether claimed or not, made from a single grape variety or a blend of the two.

Let's discover together the method of elaboration of these Cuvées!

The red colour, with its thousand facets, so seductive and captivating, is obtained by a rather delicate method.

The five stages of the elaboration :

1.     The grapes are often harvested at dawn, in the cold of the early morning, in order to preserve all their characteristics. When they arrive at the press, they are carefully de-stemmed and the grapes are selected for their quality.

2.     Before being placed in the vat, the berries are lightly crushed so that the grape skin splits and the juice can extract the colour contained in it for a very short period. The natural pigments contained in the skins of the black grapes will then colour the clear juice by enriching it with their aromatic components.

3.     For this skin maceration, the difficulty is not to let the wine macerate for too long at the risk of tasting like red wine. This is why the musts are left to macerate briefly (from 12 to 48 hours, depending on the style of Champagne to be made and the characteristics of the harvest) with the skins of the grapes until the desired colour is obtained.

4.     The puncturing of the bleeding is done when the winemaker judges that the juice contains enough pigment to obtain the rosé that suits him (pale pink, rose petal pink, salmon hues, raspberry, grenadine, cherry, partridge eye, ...). This juice puncture is extracted under the marc cake, which is composed of skins floating on the must. This puncture is called bleeding. The partial removal of the bottom of the vat allows the fineness of the juice to be maintained.

5.     Once separated from the skins, this new rosé must will begin its fermentation at a low temperature. Here again, a rigorous monitoring of the temperatures will allow to preserve all the finesse and the flavour of this future exceptional Champagne.

This type of elaboration requires time and know-how, two qualities that make Rosé de Saignée so rare.

A seductive visual presentation, a more intense rosé colour with nuances that obviously vary from one vintage to another, an aromatic and greedy fruitiness, an often powerful structure, thanks to the tannins, this is a Champagne for connoisseurs.

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