Alexis Goujard of France’s Revue du Vin de France did a whistle stop tour of the best French fizz for its November issue. “There’s more to life than just Champagne”, he said, “there’ a multitude of different styles and appellations throughout France: Crémant, Blanquette, Montlouis, Bugey …” He included the Crémant de Limoux and the […]
The celebrated British wine writer, Jancis Robinson MW has taken a close interest in the wines of the Languedoc ever since she bought a house there nearly 40 years ago. Today, she says, “there has been a massive relandscaping of the region”, with the total area under vine shrinking to about half its size, and […]
“What a wonderful white wine, brimming with character” says the Sunday Times’ wine correspondent, Will Lyons, in the October 7 edition, about the Limoux 100% Mauzac from Chateau Rives-Blanques, one of the six bottles the eminent critic recommends as a gift for your dinner party host. To read his tasting notes on another wine from the […]
For the eighteenth year in a row, the famous “Green Guide’ to French wines comments on the ‘freshness and elegance’ of the wines from Rives-Blanques in its newest edition. The tasting panel favoured the ‘finesse and fruit-full flair’ of the sparkling Crémant de Limoux, Vintage Rose, but awarded its coup-de-coeur heart to the Blanquette de Limoux […]
“All the wines from this estate are refined and endowed with great freshness”, says the Guide des Vins Bettane & Desseauve in its 2019 edition, “but it is the elegance of the non-sparkling wines that have made Rives-Blanques so well known.”