Is red wine better with cheese than white wine? Cheese Master Ron of the world-famous Dutch cheese producers, Reypenaer, actually seems to like whisky with cheese, but that is beside the point. This is Rives-Blanques, and we are talking wine. On Thursday June 19, Ron will be hosting a wine and cheese tasting at Rives-Blanques, […]
For an unprecedented and uninterrupted thirteen times, a wine from Rives-Blanques features in the annual selection of the best wines of the millésime in the June issue of La Revue du Vin de France. The respected publication said that 2013 was “the best vintage since 1998” in the Languedoc, though it was the red wines […]
Wine lovers have learned to seek out white wines from the region best known for its red wines, says the magazine Terre de Vins. But waving the white flag in Languedoc Roussillon are “some rare bottles sculpted with great personality”. Amongst the Top Twenty chosen by their tasting panel headed by the famous Thierry Desseauve, […]
The content of this exhaustive report on the region follows: The Languedoc and Roussillon: 2011, 2012 and 2013 The Languedoc and the Roussillon continue their gradual progression towards not only making world-class wine (which, in a number of cases, they unquestionably already are), but towards being recognized for it by the consumer. This second factor […]
Our 100% chardonnay, Odyssée 2012, won a silver medal this year at the Competition of the Great Wines of France in Macon. Celebrating its 60th year, this competition has the doubtful honour of being in the Guinness Book of Records for the scale of its size. The Rives-Blanques chardonnay, fermented and aged in oak barrels, […]