Our Brut Rosé opens with delicate aromas of stone fruit, citrus, tropical fruit and peach. The mouthfeel is crisp with bright fruit, crisp acidity, balanced residual sugar and a medium mousse on the palate lead to a lingering clean finish. A sparkling for every occasion, enjoy our Brut Rosé as an aperitif, or paired with a creamy cremini mushroom and asparagus quiche, crispy prosciutto and brie grilled cheese, or zesty citrus crème brûlée.
Vineyard/Winemaker Notes
Saber Brut Rosé is a sparkling reflection of the Monterey, California growing region. Our Mesa del Rio estate vineyard was farmed for premium fruit. We believe whole-heartedly in breaking out the bubbles for occasions (or non-occasions) of any size. And as far as sabering? Well, while we cannot recommend attempting anything as inherently risky as cleaving the top off a bottle of bubbly, if you are tempted to do so anyway, please do so at your own risk, exercise extreme caution and aim away!
Single Vineyard Site | Mesa del Rio
The fruit for our single vineyard Brut Rosé was sustainably grown in Mesa del Rio Vineyard, one of our estate vineyards within the Monterey appellation of California. Each year, the grapes are harvested in the cool early morning and delivered to the winery shortly after sunrise. Foggy mornings and cool afternoon winds characterize this region, and a longer growing season helped our bubbles develop vibrant fruit character and balanced acidity.
Specs
Aging: 6 months in 100% stainless steel
Alcohol: 12%
Total Acidity: 9.3 g/L
Residual Sugar: 6.5 g/L
pH: 3.71
Included in the Box
4-bottles:
4x Saber Single Vineyard Brut Rosé, Mesa del Rio Vineyard, Monterey
Case:
12x Saber Single Vineyard Brut Rosé, Mesa del Rio Vineyard, Monterey
Al Scheid first saw untapped potential in Monterey County in 1972 when the wine region was in its infancy. What started as a grape growing operation that sold 100% of its production to other wineries today has evolved into a grapes-to-glass family business that crafts authentic and elegant wines. Our Scheid Family Wines portfolio now includes five unique and distinctive labels: Scheid Vineyards, District 7, Metz Road, VDR and Stokes’ Ghost.
With 12 estate vineyards comprised of 4,000 acres located along a 70-mile spread of the Salinas Valley, the array of microclimates and soils give us an incredible selection to work with each vintage. While our wealth of vineyard resources is exceptional, it is our employees that are at the heart of everything we do. Much of our workforce has been with us for over 25 years, with several of our vineyard managers employed for over 40 years.
The Scheid family – Al, Scott, Heidi and long-time COO Kurt Gollnick – along with our dream team of employees, are passionate about crafting the best wine possible and honoring our commitment to be good stewards of the land and supporters of our local community. We are proud to produce authentic products that sit on your dinner table and invite conversation, connection and warmth.
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IA, KS, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Saber Single Vineyard Sparkling Brut Rosé
4 bottles for $49.99 $12.50/bottle + $2/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $109.99 $9.17/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
@chipgreen@rjquillin
The website is devoid of both useful information and user friendliness. Whoever developed it should find a different profession. The wine, otoh, see below…
@chipgreen@klezman@rjquillin Woah, I thought y’all were exaggerating about the website. Looks like the kind of thing you’d make as a project in an “Introduction to Web Programming” class. Maybe we’re all subjects in a psychological experiment?
@chipgreen@KitMarlot@rjquillin Or like people who are just learning to use PowerPoint and make everything with animations and such crap. It might be content-free, but it sure shows a lot of use of the tools that are available. Mostly for the worse.
@chipgreen@KitMarlot@klezman
I did visit the site and sent them a rather scathing comment. Times like this, we really do need them on the boards here.
Hoping for @winedavid49 the sale was better than their site.
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
Saber Single Vineyard Sparkling Brut Rosé - $40 = 26.66%
I was lucky enough to get a sample bottle Friday. Prior to opening it, I knew basically nothing about the wine, as I all I could find about it was on https://www.saberwines.com and the site does not provide much information.
The fiancee and I popped the bottle, rather than sabering it, and ate it with a filet mignon. It poured a nice pale pink with very small bubbles (see picture). The nose and the first taste was of strawberries turning to melons. The mid-palette was short, but with some minerality. The finish was tart and reminded us more of a sour beer than champagne.
Frankly, this is different from any sparkling wine I’ve ever had. I would say it is not a great choice to pair with the main course, but perfect for dessert or as a summer porch rocker. The fiancee wanted more and I would have picked up a case at these prices, but this offer is not shipping to my state. I might have to get this shipped to my mom’s place to satisfy her.
Thankfully we got the automated email from UPS telling us this bottle was en route, so it arrived safe and sound Friday afternoon. Upon seeing the clue, I realized it was not for that evening and held it in the fridge until this afternoon, and we opened it up in the 3rd quarter of the 49ers/Packers game.
NV Saber Brut Rosé, Mesa del Rio Vineyard, Monterey
Precious little information on the label, and despite this being from Scheid the winery is listed as being in Lodi. Go figure.
Colour: Light salmon/orange. Bubbles appear to be a bit on the large side, but not crazily so.
Aromas: Immediately this is a delightful aroma, laden with red fruits, mango, and other tropical fruits. A hint of bread, but not yeasty. Makes me wonder what the grapes are, since this smells almost nothing like a typical Chardonnay/Pinot Noir bubbly. (A look on the website says 98% Chardonnay and 2% Dolcetto, which I would have never guessed.)
Flavours: About what you’d expect given the aromas, but with a bunch of citrus in addition. This definitely comes across as brut, with just a hint of sweetness, and even then only when warmer. I suspect the pH has a transposition and it’s actually 3.17 rather than 3.71. Plenty of acidity, to be sure.
Finish: Citrus, most prominently mandarin peel. The finish persists for a good long while as well. The dryness comes across even more on the finish.
Overall: This is solid - a bit better as it warms up a bit from the fridge, since the acid/sweetness/fruit balance is better for my tastes. The red fruits come out more as well. The bottle vanished quite quickly. If you like your bubbles more on the bracing acidity side, then drink right from the fridge, otherwise let it warm up 5-10 degrees F.
At $9.17/bottle case pricing, this would, for me, be an excellent wine to have on hand for those “just feel like opening bubbles” times when we’d normally reach for the $10 Trader Joe’s North Coast Brut Rosé. This is a rather different wine, but has the sort of aromas you can sniff for ages and ages.
I’m very curious to hear from the winemakers how this blend came about and how the tropical notes became so prominent.
@klezman Similar QPR to Gruet Rosé? (Meaning, really high.) And TJ NC Brut Rosé? Over the last year, going through 2+ cases of various Gruet from casemates, I’ve decided we’re going to rely mostly on their Rosé moving forward. Goes with nearly anything.
Though it (Gruet Rosé) will likely come up again, can’t be certain that it will, and I’m completely out. So maybe this Saber Rosé is the droids I’m looking for.
@klezman@PatrickKarcher I am a big fan of Gruet Rose’ as well. How does this compare to that? I can’t stand bubbly on the off-dry spectrum: is this an extra dry as it is supposed to be?
@klezman@PatrickKarcher@salpo Jumping in not having tasted it of course, but at 6.5 g/l of residual sugar this puts it almost in the extra brut (dry) category, kind of the upper limit for extra brut and lower limit for brut. Extra dry and off dry are basically the same category, a step up in sweetness from brut.
Gruet rose brut is listed as 1% g/l which I believe to be 10 g/l
@kaolis@PatrickKarcher@salpo I’ve not had the Gruet Rosé recently enough to have a clue on comparing them, sorry.
As for sweetness, this is definitely on the brut/extra brut border. We’re getting nowhere near as sweet as “extra dry”, or even, to be honest, as Iron Horse Russian Cuvée (which I love). This is also more dry than the TJ’s Brut Rose.
@kaolis@klezman@PatrickKarcher Look at you, all scientific! Thank you SO much. I never thought of these categories in scientific terms, which is a shame. Thanks!
@kaolis@PatrickKarcher@salpo Yeah, the categories are apparently a relic of when “dry” was still actually quite sweet. Just less sweet than the other stuff available a few hundred years ago. So they invented a new category called brut. Then extra brut. Then the “zero dosage” categories that don’t have standard names, but often go by brut zero, brut sauvage, brut nature, etc.
@salpo I’ve had both the Gruet and this offer. They are very different animals. The Gruet is a traditional rose sparkler (basically similar to what you could find in any wine store/supermarket in the country and I buy a half case whenever it is offered here), while the saber is just atypical (not in a bad way). It has a more tropical profile and very dry and funky finish (it reminded me of a sour-style beer).
@kookie00 Got a case, opened a bottle yesterday night. Holy mole, this is basically peach syrup with alcohol. I don’t even know how they can sell this thing as wine. I think it was very easily the worst wine I bought in the past decade. Bleah!
Produced charmat/tank method, they use the term Metodo Italiano. Not necessarily a bad thing and that can preserve some of the freshness in a sparkler, maybe that contributes to the tropical profile ?? Just a guess, and probably more to it than that
@kaolis how’d you figure out that it’s Charmat method? If so it’s one of the better bottles using that method that I’ve had. Lots of Italian bubbly is made using the traditional method.
@kaolis Yeah, I saw that, but just (incorrectly) assumed that Metodo Italiano was the local name for the standard process. I hadn’t realized most Prosecco and Lambrusco were Charmat method. Live and learn, right?
Tasting Notes
Our Brut Rosé opens with delicate aromas of stone fruit, citrus, tropical fruit and peach. The mouthfeel is crisp with bright fruit, crisp acidity, balanced residual sugar and a medium mousse on the palate lead to a lingering clean finish. A sparkling for every occasion, enjoy our Brut Rosé as an aperitif, or paired with a creamy cremini mushroom and asparagus quiche, crispy prosciutto and brie grilled cheese, or zesty citrus crème brûlée.
Vineyard/Winemaker Notes
Saber Brut Rosé is a sparkling reflection of the Monterey, California growing region. Our Mesa del Rio estate vineyard was farmed for premium fruit. We believe whole-heartedly in breaking out the bubbles for occasions (or non-occasions) of any size. And as far as sabering? Well, while we cannot recommend attempting anything as inherently risky as cleaving the top off a bottle of bubbly, if you are tempted to do so anyway, please do so at your own risk, exercise extreme caution and aim away!
Single Vineyard Site | Mesa del Rio
The fruit for our single vineyard Brut Rosé was sustainably grown in Mesa del Rio Vineyard, one of our estate vineyards within the Monterey appellation of California. Each year, the grapes are harvested in the cool early morning and delivered to the winery shortly after sunrise. Foggy mornings and cool afternoon winds characterize this region, and a longer growing season helped our bubbles develop vibrant fruit character and balanced acidity.
Specs
Included in the Box
Price Comparison
$348 for a Case/$29 MSRP/ Not for sale on website
About The Winery
Scheid Family Wines
Al Scheid first saw untapped potential in Monterey County in 1972 when the wine region was in its infancy. What started as a grape growing operation that sold 100% of its production to other wineries today has evolved into a grapes-to-glass family business that crafts authentic and elegant wines. Our Scheid Family Wines portfolio now includes five unique and distinctive labels: Scheid Vineyards, District 7, Metz Road, VDR and Stokes’ Ghost.
With 12 estate vineyards comprised of 4,000 acres located along a 70-mile spread of the Salinas Valley, the array of microclimates and soils give us an incredible selection to work with each vintage. While our wealth of vineyard resources is exceptional, it is our employees that are at the heart of everything we do. Much of our workforce has been with us for over 25 years, with several of our vineyard managers employed for over 40 years.
The Scheid family – Al, Scott, Heidi and long-time COO Kurt Gollnick – along with our dream team of employees, are passionate about crafting the best wine possible and honoring our commitment to be good stewards of the land and supporters of our local community. We are proud to produce authentic products that sit on your dinner table and invite conversation, connection and warmth.
Available States
AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IA, KS, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Feb 10 - Tuesday, Feb 11
Saber Single Vineyard Sparkling Brut Rosé
4 bottles for $49.99 $12.50/bottle + $2/bottle shipping
Case of 12 for $109.99 $9.17/bottle + $1/bottle shipping
Saber Single Vineyard Sparkling Brut Rosé
Do we know the grape, or blend?
Nothing in the description I see; but I could be blind.
@rjquillin
Appears to be a Rose of Dolcetto
@chipgreen @rjquillin
The website is devoid of both useful information and user friendliness. Whoever developed it should find a different profession. The wine, otoh, see below…
@chipgreen @klezman
That has to be the most worthless website I’ve yet encountered.
@rjquillin
From their website, it would imply 98% Chardonnay, 2% Dolcetto.
@chipgreen @klezman @rjquillin Woah, I thought y’all were exaggerating about the website. Looks like the kind of thing you’d make as a project in an “Introduction to Web Programming” class. Maybe we’re all subjects in a psychological experiment?
@chipgreen @KitMarlot @rjquillin Or like people who are just learning to use PowerPoint and make everything with animations and such crap. It might be content-free, but it sure shows a lot of use of the tools that are available. Mostly for the worse.
@chipgreen @KitMarlot @klezman
I did visit the site and sent them a rather scathing comment. Times like this, we really do need them on the boards here.
Hoping for @winedavid49 the sale was better than their site.
How much more are you saving by buying a full case?
(Note: Tax & Shipping not included in savings calculations)
Saber Single Vineyard Sparkling Brut Rosé - $40 = 26.66%
I was lucky enough to get a sample bottle Friday. Prior to opening it, I knew basically nothing about the wine, as I all I could find about it was on https://www.saberwines.com and the site does not provide much information.
The fiancee and I popped the bottle, rather than sabering it, and ate it with a filet mignon. It poured a nice pale pink with very small bubbles (see picture). The nose and the first taste was of strawberries turning to melons. The mid-palette was short, but with some minerality. The finish was tart and reminded us more of a sour beer than champagne.
Frankly, this is different from any sparkling wine I’ve ever had. I would say it is not a great choice to pair with the main course, but perfect for dessert or as a summer porch rocker. The fiancee wanted more and I would have picked up a case at these prices, but this offer is not shipping to my state. I might have to get this shipped to my mom’s place to satisfy her.
@kookie00 Ironic that you could receive a labrat bottle but can’t order for shipping to your state!
Thankfully we got the automated email from UPS telling us this bottle was en route, so it arrived safe and sound Friday afternoon. Upon seeing the clue, I realized it was not for that evening and held it in the fridge until this afternoon, and we opened it up in the 3rd quarter of the 49ers/Packers game.
NV Saber Brut Rosé, Mesa del Rio Vineyard, Monterey
Precious little information on the label, and despite this being from Scheid the winery is listed as being in Lodi. Go figure.
Colour: Light salmon/orange. Bubbles appear to be a bit on the large side, but not crazily so.
Aromas: Immediately this is a delightful aroma, laden with red fruits, mango, and other tropical fruits. A hint of bread, but not yeasty. Makes me wonder what the grapes are, since this smells almost nothing like a typical Chardonnay/Pinot Noir bubbly. (A look on the website says 98% Chardonnay and 2% Dolcetto, which I would have never guessed.)
Flavours: About what you’d expect given the aromas, but with a bunch of citrus in addition. This definitely comes across as brut, with just a hint of sweetness, and even then only when warmer. I suspect the pH has a transposition and it’s actually 3.17 rather than 3.71. Plenty of acidity, to be sure.
Finish: Citrus, most prominently mandarin peel. The finish persists for a good long while as well. The dryness comes across even more on the finish.
Overall: This is solid - a bit better as it warms up a bit from the fridge, since the acid/sweetness/fruit balance is better for my tastes. The red fruits come out more as well. The bottle vanished quite quickly. If you like your bubbles more on the bracing acidity side, then drink right from the fridge, otherwise let it warm up 5-10 degrees F.
At $9.17/bottle case pricing, this would, for me, be an excellent wine to have on hand for those “just feel like opening bubbles” times when we’d normally reach for the $10 Trader Joe’s North Coast Brut Rosé. This is a rather different wine, but has the sort of aromas you can sniff for ages and ages.
I’m very curious to hear from the winemakers how this blend came about and how the tropical notes became so prominent.
@klezman Similar QPR to Gruet Rosé? (Meaning, really high.) And TJ NC Brut Rosé? Over the last year, going through 2+ cases of various Gruet from casemates, I’ve decided we’re going to rely mostly on their Rosé moving forward. Goes with nearly anything.
Though it (Gruet Rosé) will likely come up again, can’t be certain that it will, and I’m completely out. So maybe this Saber Rosé is the droids I’m looking for.
@klezman @PatrickKarcher I am a big fan of Gruet Rose’ as well. How does this compare to that? I can’t stand bubbly on the off-dry spectrum: is this an extra dry as it is supposed to be?
@klezman @PatrickKarcher @salpo Jumping in not having tasted it of course, but at 6.5 g/l of residual sugar this puts it almost in the extra brut (dry) category, kind of the upper limit for extra brut and lower limit for brut. Extra dry and off dry are basically the same category, a step up in sweetness from brut.
Gruet rose brut is listed as 1% g/l which I believe to be 10 g/l
@kaolis @PatrickKarcher @salpo I’ve not had the Gruet Rosé recently enough to have a clue on comparing them, sorry.
As for sweetness, this is definitely on the brut/extra brut border. We’re getting nowhere near as sweet as “extra dry”, or even, to be honest, as Iron Horse Russian Cuvée (which I love). This is also more dry than the TJ’s Brut Rose.
@kaolis @klezman @PatrickKarcher Look at you, all scientific! Thank you SO much. I never thought of these categories in scientific terms, which is a shame. Thanks!
@kaolis @klezman @PatrickKarcher I guess I’ll try then! In for a case!
@kaolis @klezman @salpo Through some research, I learned that a ‘Dry’ sparkling is the 4th dryest, after Extra Brut, Brut, Extra Dry.
@kaolis @PatrickKarcher @salpo Yeah, the categories are apparently a relic of when “dry” was still actually quite sweet. Just less sweet than the other stuff available a few hundred years ago. So they invented a new category called brut. Then extra brut. Then the “zero dosage” categories that don’t have standard names, but often go by brut zero, brut sauvage, brut nature, etc.
@salpo I’ve had both the Gruet and this offer. They are very different animals. The Gruet is a traditional rose sparkler (basically similar to what you could find in any wine store/supermarket in the country and I buy a half case whenever it is offered here), while the saber is just atypical (not in a bad way). It has a more tropical profile and very dry and funky finish (it reminded me of a sour-style beer).
@kookie00 @salpo
That sounds a lot like some Lambrusco sparklers I’ve had. When there isn’t an oddly dry and funky finish, I’m disappointed.
@kookie00 Got a case, opened a bottle yesterday night. Holy mole, this is basically peach syrup with alcohol. I don’t even know how they can sell this thing as wine. I think it was very easily the worst wine I bought in the past decade. Bleah!
@kookie00 @salpo that sucks!
Produced charmat/tank method, they use the term Metodo Italiano. Not necessarily a bad thing and that can preserve some of the freshness in a sparkler, maybe that contributes to the tropical profile ?? Just a guess, and probably more to it than that
@kaolis how’d you figure out that it’s Charmat method? If so it’s one of the better bottles using that method that I’ve had. Lots of Italian bubbly is made using the traditional method.
@klezman If you go to the aforementioned not so easy to navigate winery website and click through you’ll end up here:
https://www.saberwines.com/#metodo-italiano
In fact I believe much of Prosecco is tank/charmat
@kaolis Yeah, I saw that, but just (incorrectly) assumed that Metodo Italiano was the local name for the standard process. I hadn’t realized most Prosecco and Lambrusco were Charmat method. Live and learn, right?
@kaolis @klezman unless an Italian sparkler is explicit that it was methode champenoise, it is Charmat process.