Colour: dense crimson with a dark violet sheen Fragrance: seductive bouquet of sweetly ripe berries, plums and fine liquorice Taste: soft and powerful with a lot of aromatic richness, fruit and freshness on the palate, fleshy, full-bodied, with an excellent structure of the densely linked and at the same time silky tannins , a wine full of elegance and finesse right through to the long-lasting finale with many dishes from classic French cuisine, with roast lamb or beef with rosemary, venison stew, wild fowl or duck with prunes. At Château Rozier, the harvest begins with the Merlot grapes and ends with the Cabernet Franc. All grapes are hand-picked into small baskets and fermented in a traditional way. The wine matures for around 15 months in one-third new, one-third and two-year-old oak barrels. Now in its ninth generation, the Saby family works in the Saint-Émilion vineyards. After numerous divisions of inheritance, purchases and sales, the terroir forms a colorful mosaic of many small plots. About a third of the Saby vines grow at the foot of the slopes on warm, deep, sandy soils where Merlot and Cabernet Franc unfold their silky tannins and ripe aromas of sweet compote and liquorice. A second third ripens in a slightly cooler location, on the calcareous-sandy soils of the plateaus. The grapes develop a juicy fleshiness here, which gives the overall cuvée its aromatic freshness. Finally, the last third is planted on the south-facing slopes. With ideal sunshine, the vines produce the grapes here on perfectly drained limestone soils, which give the wine both body and its indispensable elegance. A rich variety that gives the two Saby cellar masters great pleasure! Through the skilful assemblage of the different plots, they create a wine of unusual fullness, elegance and complexity, which nature gives a different, multifaceted face to each vintage, but which at the same time always remains a testimony to the finesse of its origin.