2020 AOC Saumur - Globules Rose Pet-Nat
2020 AOC Saumur - Globules Rose Pet-Nat
This year a blend of riper Cab Franc & Grolleau, only lightly disgorged for a fleshy, juicy pet nat.
Cuvée: Globulles Roses
Style: Sparkling
Colour: Rose
Grapes/Blend: 70% Cabernet Franc, 30% Grolleau
ABV: 12.5%
Vintage: 2020
Winemaking: Manual harvest. Picked in early September to retain freshness, pressed slowly over 6 hours and blended together before fermentation in fibreglass. Bottled 3 weeks into the ferment with 20g/l residual sugar, the wine was rich in yeasts this year and proved tricky to disgorge fully. 2020 then is lightly cloudy, a little deeper in colour and in our opinion all the better for it.
Sulphur: None added
Soil: Clay
Classically trained winemaking husband and wife duo Melanie and Aymeric returned to Saumur in 2006. Starting out by renting vines, then in 2008 purchasing the 4.5 hectares they farm today. Chenin, Cabernet Franc and Grolleau across four plots on the slope of Clos de Cerisae looking towards the village of Puy-Notre-Dame. Clos de Cerisaie are their older vines - 50-year-old, with Billes de Roche being the younger vines at 25 years. Soil is clay on limestone. Sulphur use is kept to a minimum.