Decanter magazine, the British wine magazine with worldwide circulation, published its Best Sparkling and Red wines of the Year list in its January edition. The Blanquette de Limoux made by Chateau Rives-Blanques featured in the No 6 slot of the sparkling wines, and was also Decanter’s Value Sparkling Wine of the Year. It was given […]
The authoritative guide to French wines, the Guide Hachette, published its 2021 selection of 10,000 wines out of 40,000 tasted this month, and Rives-Blanques was named as “one of the very good addresses of the appellation, that takes really good care of its grapes”. The famous guide awarded two stars to our “vibrant” Chenin blanc […]
Patrick Dessert-Gerber’s wine guide 2021 covers the range of Rives-Blanques wines, calling our entry-level Chardonnay-Chenin “perfectly made” and “most agreeable”; the late harvest Lagremas d’Aur shows “all the persistance and characteristics of the chenin blanc grape”; Trilogie is “perfumed with heather and quince”; Blanquette de Limoux is “extremely elegant”; Aude à la Joie is “full […]
Rives-Blanques received some high praise from the British Languedoc wine expert, Rosemary George MW this month. “As good as the best Bonnezeau or Coteaux du Layon”, she said of our Late Harvest Chenin blanc Lagremas d’Aur. “Try detecting the difference in a blind tasting, she challenged. The Chenin blanc, Dédicace,”long one of my favourite white wines […]
André Domine, Wein Wirtschaft’s Languedoc expert, does a whirlwind tour of Limoux vineyards, passing by a number of important big estates, small family vineyards and the new up-and-coming young growers of the appellation, and finds that “the Limoux region presents surprising freshness and elegance in both sparkling and still wines – and all at great […]