Although wary of what we wish for, we wished for winter none the less … and we got it. Here we are: cut off, snowed in, chilled out, and closed down. Rives-Blanques in name, rives blanques in nature. Winter came not a second too soon: in Limoux some vines had already been lulled by a […]
VINE LINES JANUARY 2012 The first sunset of the first day of the New Year at Rives-Blanques, full of promise and portent. No wonder we feel so optimistic about 2012 …. Here is the winery, reflected in the open door to the tasting room, where all the action is centred this week. That battery of […]
The vineyard is a-flame with the light of 96,800 vines brightly burning gold and burnished amber; Autumn has settled over Rives-Blanques like a rich tweed jacket, and it is beautiful. This month fell in through the roof, as huge swathes of the Languedoc were covered in enough water to launch a ship. The rain over Rives-Blanques […]
Here you see what Galileo’s equation is all about: wine = liquid sunshine. Now all we have to do is add it up. The harvest of 2011 is over. Short and sharp, it was the most compact and condensed anyone can remember on our plateau. Eclectic, electric, confusing – we were kept on our toes […]
All dressed up, ready to go, and made to measure: meet our new Crémant de Limoux Magnum. We like things big at Rives-Blanques, so it was time for our Blanc de Blancs to be brought up to size – not quite two metres tall, but a good bottleful of bubbles none the less. (One star […]