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A serious, expertly crafted wine, with style and substance. Offers grilled peach, smoke and flint up front, with...
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Fennel and grapefruit on the nose. Only medium-bodied, with a lovely sense of freshness and tension. Great...
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There's a touch of oak on the nose and palate that helps to frame the tangy citrus notes, and lends a touch of spice,...
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Fairly full-bodied but not overly gloopy. Powerfully flavoursome, with length and depth that are brought into focus...
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Organic. Pruning method is Guyau Val de Loire. Grapes are harvested by hand and carefully sorted in the vineyard....
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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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Discrete reductive note brings a flinty edge to the florals. Disarmingly lovely on the palate. Very well balanced,...
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The 2021 Chateauneuf Du Pape La Bernardine Blanc showed brilliantly, with a rocking nose of ripe white peach,...
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• Practicing biodynamic. • 100% Chenin Blanc. • From the lieu-dit ‘Clos de La Hutte’ in the hamlet of La...
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Robe: This wine presents an almost crystalline straw yellow color; limpid, bright, and luminous. Nose: The nose...
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Robe: The robe is a straw yellow color, almost crystalline; limpid, bright, and luminous. Nose: The first nose...

Carmenere Chenin Blanc White Rhone Blend 2021 Pre-Arrival Wine

The deep blue colored grapes of the Carmenere varietal have their origins in France, where they are still listed as one of the elite grape varietals allowed by French law for the use in Bordeaux wines, generally regarded to be the finest in the world. However, the use of Carmenere grapes in France has been dwindling for many decades now, and it has been in several New World countries where they have seen their renaissance. Although still mostly used as a blending grape, single variety Carmenere wines are greatly sought after as a result of their deep, complex aromas, stunning blood red color and the fact that the grapes, when processed at optimum ripeness, carry some fascinating flavors, including chocolate, tobacco, and spicy cherry notes.

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 Rhone region of France has been producing superb quality white blended wines for centuries, and is a region highly respected and esteemed around the world, with plenty of New World countries keen to emulate the styles and techniques displayed by the historic wineries and skilled vintners of the area. The secret to the Rhone's success when it comes to blended white wines is the careful and expert selection of certain grape varietals, which each lend special features to the blended wine and bring balance and harmony to the bottle. Most commonly, blended white Rhone wines feature no more than two grapes of either the Viognier, Rousanne, Marsanne or Grenache Blanc varietals, and are renowned for their exceptional flavors and highly aromatic, floral character.