This new edition of Patrick Dussset-Gerber’s wine guide begins its review of our Rives-Blanques wines with the Blanquette, “an excellent très joli vin” and ends on a sweet note with our late harvest Chenin, Lagremas d’Aur which is described as ‘fruity, round, and very well made”. The wine critic awarded our estate with his five-star Prix d’Honneur, one […]
The venerable Guide Hachette published its 2022 edition in early September, selecting 8000 of the 35000 wines tasted from every appellation throughout the country. “This vineyard is no stranger to accolades”, the Guide said of Château Rives-Blanques. It maintains “a lovely complicity with Chenin blanc” they added, awarding our Dédicace 2019 two stars. “‘Mineral’ is not […]
Spurred by a request from Jancis Robinson MW for stories about old vines, we submitted ours about the old Mauzac vines growing in a parcel behind the house called Le Jardin. This is what was published on JancisRobinson.com:
Wine writer Elizabeth Gabay MW organised a comparative tasting of Chardonnay. She admitted the panel had a ‘soft spot’ for Limoux, which has “been cultivating a reputation for outstanding Chardonnays for a while now”. It was the region “from which we had the highest expectations” they said, the conventional wisdom being that “Limoux offers outstanding value […]