2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet mostly limestone soil

mostly limestone soil

25 y/o vines

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

Fermented with indigenous yeast and undergoing no malolactic fermentation

2023 La Porte Saint-Jean Saumur-Champigny, Loire, France Lucien Aviet mostly limestone soilLike 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.