Augustin

Cuvée Gaïa 2018 | Bottle 75cl

Description

The Gaïa cuvée produced by Marc Augustin is a rosé champagne made from Pinot Noir grapes. It is the perfect alchemy for a wine with a unique destiny: after bottling, GAÏA is buried, and the earth becomes a cellar...

This is the "O2 Rosée" cuvée, half of which is buried the day after bottling under the plot where the grapes were grown in order to develop the second fermentation according to a concept known as "geomaturation." After 24 months underground, the maturation of these bottles results in a difference in density, remarkable depth and surprisingly more pronounced root notes.

This cuvée is made exclusively from Pinot Noir grapes from 40-year-old vines located in Avenay Val d'Or, a Premier Cru terroir in the Montagne de Reims characterized by its clay-limestone soils. The wine is aged in large oak casks for 10 to 11 months.

Both viticulture and vinification are carried out according to biodynamic principles, in harmony with the lunar phases, and the wines undergo controlled dynamization. Like the estate's other cuvées, the wine is unfiltered and unfiltered, with yeast added from the previous year's lees.

This exceptional Gaïa cuvée has a darker color than O2 Rosée and is a more complex and vinous wine.