The monumental tasting of 50,000 wines across the entire French vineyard by Bettane and Desseauve with their team of assistants resulted in the 2011 edition of a heavy tome entitled The Great Guide of the Wines of France. Limoux was well represented, with the inclusion of its top fifteen producers. Among them, the Rives-Blanques range […]
Languedoc’s women in wine make waves … also in the famous seaside resort of Sète: at Doc Sud, the hot spot in a very cool art gallery. There will be a wine tasting with a wonderful range of Languedoc wines hosted by this dynamic group of female wine-makers on 19 June. Great food, great art, […]
The 2009 vintage was a good one in the Languedoc … for white wines coming from high places, according to France’s leading wine publication, La Revue du Vin de France in its exhaustive annual roundup of the best wines of the millésime throughout the country. A wet winter and spring followed by a dramatically dry […]
An incredible five-course menu tailor-made to match our wines by Michelin* chef Ferdy Debecker and his wife Ann, will be served on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, June 1 and 2, 2010. The place for this gastronomic delight is the Michelin-star Restaurant Eyckerhof in Bornem near Antwerpen. Interesting combinations include our gold medal winning sauvignon (Sauvageon) […]
Some brand-new wines from the Rives-Blanques range were recognised this month for their quality. Decanter World Wine Awards commended the new pink Crémant de Limoux, Vintage Rose, while the Competition of the Great Wines of Languedoc-Roussillon awarded a gold medal to our new sauvignon blanc, Sauvageon. At the same time, Cuvée Occitania 2008 was commended […]