100% Pinot Meunier. The fruit for Boulard’s rosé de saignée comes from family parcels scattered around the villages of Paradis, Cuchery and Belval-sous-Châtillon in the Vallée de la Marne northwest of Cumières. Notably, in this particular area of the Marne, there are 400 hectares of vines, of which only 3.2 hectares are farmed organically--1.2 hectares of those belong to Boulard and are certified organic. The average age of their vines is 35 years. The farming includes biodynamic practices, and all work including harvest is manual. As for all Boulard wines, the grapes are picked late with high ripeness in order to achieve balance with minimal to no dosage.

A rosé de saignée is a relatively rare creature in Champagne, made by maceration rather than by blending a still red wine into a still white base. This style tends to be more vinous and have a deeper color. In the Boulard cellar, the unpressed Meunier bunches go into tank where the juice spends 10 to 12 hours in contact with the skins. That juice is then saignée or “bled” from the tank and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in used Burgundy barrels. The wine undergoes malolactic fermentation with monthly bâtonnage in the same barrels. The wine is bottled in June without fining or the addition of sulfur (tiny amount added only in tank). The bottles are riddled and disgorged by hand, in late 2022 in this case. The wine is finished with a dosage of 2-3 grams per liter.