2024 Chai de La Dive Saumur Rouge

The 2024 Chai de la Dive "Les Moulins" is organically farmed Cabernet Franc from multiple sites across Berrie, Brézé, and Montreuil-Bellay on Turonian and Jurassic limestone — the debut vintage of a new négociant project born from one of Saumur's most celebrated addresses. 

Freshly-tilled earth, tobacco, dark berry, lavender — and with 30 minutes in the glass, something opens up: raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, all threaded through with clay-limestone minerality. 

Romain Guiberteau — mentored by the legendary Nady Foucault of Clos Rougeard — launched Chai de la Dive with his daughter Camille, her partner Alex Crochet, and American expat Brendan Stater-West, to source high-quality fruit from neighboring organic growers and make earlier-drinking wines that free the domaine to focus on its most serious, age-worthy bottlings. "Chai" is French for wine cellar. Consider this the cellar door. Decant it, give it time, and pay attention.