Sadi Malot Bulles de Rosé

With Bulles de Rosé, Sadi Malot brings its Villers-Marmery Chardonnay tradition into a rounded rosé expression. Chardonnay is the principal grape, and the producer describes maturation lasting at least thirty months in large oak vessels. Together, those details help explain why this cuvée is presented as a wine of breadth and texture rather than judging its character from colour alone. That Chardonnay emphasis is central to understanding Sadi Malot. The family estate is based in Villers-Marmery on the eastern Montagne de Reims, a village the producer describes as being planted overwhelmingly to Chardonnay despite its location in a sector more commonly associated with Pinot Noir. The domaine is now run by Franck and Christine Malot with Florian and Cindy, continuing a family Champagne business established in the village for close to a century. The wider range is organised around that same sense of place. Cuvée d’Origine is the natural introduction to Villers-Marmery Chardonnay and the house’s perpetual reserve, which has been maintained since 1982. Bulles de Rosé takes a different route, retaining Chardonnay as an important part of the composition but shifting the style towards rosé and greater breadth. Its flavour profile follows that change of direction. Red berries and fresh raspberry give the wine its fruit-led centre, while a touch of pink grapefruit brings lift and definition. The result is a rosé with enough presence to work beyond aperitif territory and enough freshness to keep the style composed. For buyers, Bulles de Rosé is the obvious choice when the appeal of Sadi Malot lies in Chardonnay but a more generous rosé expression is wanted. It shows how the estate can move away from the pure Blanc de Blancs axis without losing the identity of Villers-Marmery, making it a useful contrast to the house’s more linear Chardonnay-led bottlings while remaining unmistakably part of the same family range.