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• Certified biodynamic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• A single 0.6 ha site on the Chaume hill.
• East facing, very...
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• Certified biodynamic.
• 100% Chenin Blanc.
• From the lieu-dit “Les Mauriers” in the village of...
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Delivers a nice saturated feel without being heavy, letting cherry and plum paste notes unfurl slowly, along with...
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Raspberry, violet, licorice, peony, black pepper and gingerbread. Greatly textured with prominent saltiness and...
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Raspberry, violet, licorice, peony, black pepper and gingerbread. Greatly textured with prominent saltiness and...
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Rich and warm in style, with a velvety flow to the mix of violet, plum paste, black currant compote and licorice root...
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Moving to the single vineyard releases, the 2020 Vinsobres Guerin comes from lower down on the hillside and more...
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Winey and muscular, with cassis and bitter plum reduction notes leading the way, while baker's chocolate, tobacco and...
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Lastly, the 2020 Vinsobres Les Côtes has an almost Côte Rôtie-like vibe in its black raspberry, spring flower,...
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Rich and well-built, this offers up a serious dark core of black currant and plum reduction flavors supported by...
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My favorite in the lineup (although these are all brilliant) is the 2020 Vinsobres Rouanne Et Les Crottes, which...
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Delivering a generous cascade of attractive ripe fig and cherry pie flavors, this red is grounded by serious cast...
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape is famously the strongest, most powerful, and longest-lived wine of the southern Rhône. Louis...
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape is famously the strongest, most powerful, and longest-lived wine of the southern Rhône. Louis...
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Louis Barruol’s family acquired this estate in 1490, though its winemaking origins date back to Gallo-Roman times....
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This seductive red offers a lot to like, with ripe red fruit and toasted aniseed notes showing an invigorating layer...
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A showstopper, this is chewy, smoky and broad-shouldered in the best possible way. Reveals layers of blackberry and...
Altesse Grenache Chenin Blanc Red Rhone Blend 750ml
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.