SAIGNÉE DE SORBÉE (Champagne VOUETTE & SORBÉE) - R 19

TERROIR

The champagne SAIGNÉE DE SORBÉE is a rosé champagne, 100% Pinot noir, made from a single year and a single parcel located in a place called Sorbée whose soil dates from the Porlandian and is composed of hard limestones whose formation took place between -150 and -145 My ago, when a powerful positive epirogenic movement (uplift of the earth's crust) and of long duration provoked a general emersion of the region.

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The estate has been certified Organic Agriculture by Ecocert since 1998. The Pinot Noir vines are about 35 years old.

The grapes are harvested in several stages and only when they are fully ripe. Harvesting can sometimes last more than 3 weeks.
Once picked, the grapes are brought to the winery and put in vats for a 5 to 8 day carbonic maceration, before being pressed in a traditional vertical press of the Coquard type which allows a soft pressing and a better extraction of the juice.

Once pressed, the must is racked into 400-liter barrels and Burgundy oak barrels of 4 wines where it completes its alcoholic and malolactic fermentations. No yeast is added to the must, the fermentation is carried out by the indigenous yeasts and bacteria.

After a short period of maturation, the must is racked and bottled with the addition of a liqueur de tirage for the second fermentation. The wine is then placed on slats for an ageing period of about 20 months.
No sugar is added after disgorging, the champagne is brut nature.

• Harvest: 2019
  
• Disgorging date: 18 november, 2021
• Slats ageing: 20 months
• Sugar addition: 0 g/l