Color: dense crimson red with a dark purple sheen.
Fragrance: seductive bouquet of sweet ripened berries, plums and fine licorice.
Taste: soft and powerful with a lot of aromatic fullness, fruit and freshness on the palate, fleshy, full-bodied, with an excellent structure of the tightly-knit and at the same time silky tannins, a wine full of elegance and finesse right through to the long-lasting finish.
With many dishes from classic French cuisine, with roast lamb or beef with rosemary, game ragout, wild poultry or duck with prunes. At Château Rozier, the harvest begins with the Merlot grapes and ends with the Cabernet Franc. All grapes are harvested by hand into small baskets and fermented in the traditional way.
The wine matures for around 15 months in one-third new, one- and two-year-old oak barriques.
The Saby family is now in its ninth generation working in the vineyards of Saint-Émilion. After numerous inheritance divisions, 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 develop their silky tannins and ripe aromas of sweet fruit compote and licorice. A second third ripens in a slightly cooler location, on the calcareous-sandy soils of the plateaus. The grapes here develop a juicy fleshiness that gives the overall cuvée its aromatic freshness. Finally, the final third is planted on the south-facing slopes. With ideal sunlight, the vines here produce grapes on perfectly drained limestone gravel soils, which give the wine both fullness and its essential elegance. A rich variety that gives the two Saby cellar masters great joy! Through the clever assemblage of the different plots, they create a wine of unusual fullness, elegance and complexity, to which nature gives a different, multi-faceted face in every vintage, but which at the same time always remains a testament to the finesse of its origins.