Chavost Rose de Saignee Brut Nature - Rose

In 2019, chef de caves Fabian Daviaux — great-grandson of a founding member of the Chavost cooperative — persuaded over 70 multi-generational grower families to abandon sulphur additions, dosage, and conventional inputs entirely, launching one of Champagne's most uncompromising natural portfolios from an unclassified village most grandes maisons overlook.

The Rosé de Saignée draws from 22 plots across 5–5.5 hectares in Chavot-Courcourt, at the geographic junction of the Côte des Blancs and the Vallée de la Marne. The dual clay-limestone and chalky-limestone soil mosaic on north-facing slopes slows ripening, preserving the taut acid structure essential to a zero-dosage Champagne that carries no corrective sugar at disgorgement.

The blend is ~67% Pinot Meunier / ~33% Pinot Noir from vines aged 35–60 years, using 100% first-press cuvée juice only — taille excluded. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentations are both spontaneous with indigenous organisms; no enzymes, no chaptalization, no added sulphites at any stage (total SO₂ measured at 6–18 mg/L naturally occurring). Second fermentation proceeds in bottle without liqueur de tirage sugar addition, with a minimum of approximately 20 months on lees. Bottled unfiltered and unfined.

At roughly 1,000 bottles per disgorgement, this is among the rarest expressions in the Chavost range — and one of the only zero-sulphur saignée rosés produced by a cooperative anywhere in Champagne AOC.