diff --git a/src/cohere/utils.py b/src/cohere/utils.py
index 1a23d4b0e..31ea77043 100644
--- a/src/cohere/utils.py
+++ b/src/cohere/utils.py
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ def save_jsonl(dataset: Dataset, filepath: str):
 
 
 def save_csv(dataset: Dataset, filepath: str):
-    with open(filepath, "w") as outfile:
+    # csv writes its own \r\n, so the stream must not translate newlines again.
+    with open(filepath, "w", newline="") as outfile:
         for i, data in enumerate(dataset_generator(dataset)):
             if i == 0:
                 writer = csv.DictWriter(outfile, fieldnames=list(data.keys()))
diff --git a/tests/test_save_dataset.py b/tests/test_save_dataset.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c871a5c29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_save_dataset.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import csv
+import os
+import tempfile
+import typing
+import unittest
+from unittest import mock
+
+from cohere.utils import save_csv
+
+records: typing.List[typing.Dict[str, str]] = [
+    {"text": "hello", "label": "a"},
+    {"text": "goodbye", "label": "b"},
+]
+
+
+class TestSaveCsv(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def _write(self, path: str) -> bytes:
+        with mock.patch("cohere.utils.dataset_generator", return_value=iter(records)):
+            save_csv(mock.Mock(), path)
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            return f.read()
+
+    def test_save_csv_uses_a_single_crlf_per_row(self) -> None:
+        # csv.DictWriter terminates rows with \r\n on every platform. If the
+        # stream also translates newlines the file ends up with \r\r\n, which
+        # readers see as a blank row between every record.
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+            raw = self._write(os.path.join(tmp, "out.csv"))
+
+        self.assertEqual(raw, b"text,label\r\nhello,a\r\ngoodbye,b\r\n")
+
+    def test_save_csv_round_trips(self) -> None:
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
+            path = os.path.join(tmp, "out.csv")
+            self._write(path)
+            with open(path, newline="") as f:
+                self.assertEqual(list(csv.DictReader(f)), records)
+
+    def test_save_csv_disables_newline_translation_on_the_stream(self) -> None:
+        # The two tests above only fail on a platform whose text streams
+        # translate newlines, so on Linux CI they pass either way. Assert the
+        # open call directly as well, otherwise nothing here guards against the
+        # newline argument being dropped again.
+        with mock.patch("cohere.utils.dataset_generator", return_value=iter(records)), \
+                mock.patch("cohere.utils.open", mock.mock_open(), create=True) as opened:
+            save_csv(mock.Mock(), "out.csv")
+
+        self.assertEqual(opened.call_args.kwargs.get("newline"), "")