Guiberteau - Chai de la Dive Saumur Rouge 'Les Moulins' 2024

With the 2024 vintage, Romain Guiberteau, Brendan Stater-West, Camille Guiberteau (Romain's daughter) and her partner, Alex Crochet, have launched a new négociant project: Chai de la Dive. This initiative reflects a growing commitment to the local organic farming community by purchasing high-quality fruit from neighboring vineyards.

Although these wines will now appear under a different label, significant portions of the fruit are still farmed by the teams of Romain and Brendan. The change allows them to focus their respective domaines on site-specific, age-worthy bottlings, while Chai de la Dive becomes home to earlier-release, more accessible wines.

All wines are bottled at Domaine Guiberteau, with Romain’s name on the back labels—a nod to both origin and continuity, and the start of a new identity under Chai de la Dive.

The word “Chai” refers to a wine cellar in French. “La Dive” is a nod to the village of Saint-Just-sur-Dive, the historic home of Domaine Guiberteau, and also evokes the nearby La Dive River.

Chai de la Dive Saumur Rouge 'Les Moulins' comes from vines with age between 10 and 25 years (as of 2024). The fruit comes from multiple sites in Berrie, Brézé, and Montreuil-Bellay. Berrie: clay-sand soil over Turonian limestone, south and southwest-facing, 76 m elevation, early-ripening. Brézé: sandy-clay soils over Turonian limestone, south and southwest-facing, 80 m elevation. Montreuil-Bellay: clay-sand soil over Jurassic limestone, west and northwest-facing.

Made with a mix of domaine-farmed and purchased grapes, organic (not certified). Grapes are de-stemmed, 4-6-day maceration and ambient yeast fermentation in concrete and stainless steel tanks, aged for 6 months in stainless steel, tangential flow filtration, 20-30 ppm SO2 added during vinification and adjusted after pressing and before bottling if needed.

In only a few years, Domaine Guiberteau has become one of the most sought after domaines in Saumur, their wines already stringently allocated and found in the best restaurants in France. 

Producer: Guiberteau - Chai de la Dive

Country: France

Region: Loire Valley

Varietal: Cabernet Franc

Appellation: Saumur

Vintage: 2024

Size: 750ml