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• Certified organic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• 70+ year old vines.
• Highest sites in the appellation – 200...
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• Certified organic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• 40-50 year old vines.
• South exposure.
• Sand clay soil with...
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Delivers a saline beam that cuts through bruised apple and pastry notes. Concentrated on the palate, with floral lift...
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• Certified organic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• 1 ha in Noizay.
• One of the iconic vineyards in Vouvray
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The various shades of gold Quarts de Chaume displays throughout the course of its life are fascinating, telling, and...
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Alluring, with quince, creamed pear, verbena and green almond flavors allied to a creamy texture, all offset...
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#56 TOP 100 CELLAR SELECTIONS 2022. Slowly developing, this wine from the butterfly (papillon) shaped vineyard is...
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100% Chenin Blanc. The Clos du Papillon is one of the three most celebrated coulées or small ravine-like valleys in...
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Enticing aromas of dried fruit, honey and acacia flowers. Lush, fruity and complex on the palate with beautiful...
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Enticing aromas of white flowers and green apple. Fresh and crisp on the palate with a waxy honeyed texture and a...
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This small-batch Brouilly leads with delicious black fruit. The wine has a nose of pencil shavings, black plum, dried...
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What an attractive nose of violets this Fleurie has. A firmly structured wine for this appellation with serious...
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Deep purple in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of blackberry, blueberry and hints of hibiscus. This vintage...
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Aromas of caramel, oak, spices and white flowers preface the 2019 Brézé from Domaine Guiberteau. It's a...
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Lemon oil, crushed mint, white flowers and hazelnuts introduce Guiberteau’s 2020 Brézé, a medium to full-bodied,...
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The 2021 Clos de Guichaux is sourced from vines planted in 2003 on shallow soil over limestone. It's an oaked, nutty,...
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Matured for 18 months on the fine lees, the 2019 Clos des Carmes, derived from a south-facing plot, reveals aromas of...
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From Gamay vines planted in 1978 in the coolest of the domaine's red wine parcels, the 2019 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont...
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Offering up aromas of cherries, sweet red berries, violets and spices, the 2020 Mâcon-Cruzille Beaumont is medium to...
Grenache Chenin Blanc Gamay Insolia White Blend 12 Ship Free Items
The Grenache grape holds the honor of being the most widely planted wine grape varietal on earth. It has a long and impressive history, and has been the backbone of the some of the planet’s most respected and famed wine regions, blended with Syrah in regions such as Chateauneuf du Pape, and in certain other Loire and Languedoc regions where it reigns supreme as a single varietal wine grape. In other key areas, such as Spain’s La Rioja (where it is known as Garnacha Tinta), it is blended with Tempranillo to make that country’s signature red wine, and is widely used as a blending grape in other old and new world countries, due to its unique character and jammy, fruit forward character.
For a long time, the Grenache grape was somewhat looked down upon as an ignoble varietal, incapable of producing wines of any particular interest. However, times are very much changing - in the right hands, Grenache grapes result in astonishingly intense and complex wines, full of fascinating features, and capable of achieving plenty of expression. For a while now, Grenache has been a major player in Australian wines. While not yet quite as extensively planted down under as Shiraz is, the Barossa Valley is bringing out some of the finest examples of this grape’s wines in recent years.
Originating in France yet now grown in many parts of the New World, Chenin Blanc is one of the most versatile and highly regarded white wine grape varietals on earth. These green skinned grapes hold a relatively high acid content, and as such can be used for making still white wines of exceptional quality, as well as superb sparkling wines (such as the Crémant wines of the Loire Valley) and extremely aromatic dessert wines. Their natural transparency means that they are a fine grape for expressing their terroir in the bottle, and winemakers often experiment with this varietal to coax unusual and intense flavors from the grapes, such as allowing the development of noble rot on the fruit in order to make sweet and viscous wines of a unique character.
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.