“A homeric beauty … the subtlety of the wood gives this wine an elegant, feminine touch … you seldom get them so clean and pure. To be compared with an expensive Burgundy.” So says Janna Rijpma, Dutch vinologue, wine writer, wine consultant and self-styled “gastro-entertainer” in her newly published book, Wine Guide for Women (only). […]
Wine Enthusiast’s much-awaited Buying Guide selected the Rives-Blanques chardonnay-chenin blanc 2016 as one of its Best Buys, in its exhaustive global roundup of world wines. Wine Enthusiast also paid special attention to the IGP Pays d’Oc region: a region with a huge diversity of climates and conditions, whose wine output accounts for 14% of French wine production, and […]
Selecting the best quality/price wines from the best IGP Pays d’Oc wines chosen for the flag-bearing Ambassador Collection, the editor of Terre de Vins attributed the fresh conditions of our “magnificent” terrace in the Upper Aude Valley together with the high standards and passion of the Panman family to the success of this Rives-Blanques Chardonnay-Chenin. “”Dense and tense, […]
The eminent British wine writer Jancis Robinson MW reviewed the wines of the Languedoc this month on her website, www.jancisrobinson.com. “I tasted some of the local wines, and got more and more excited” she said. “I have long been championing this still-massive wine region for the value it offers, but the sheer number of seriously […]
Lagremas d’Aur 2016, our late harvest of Chenin blanc which had undergone noble rot and harvested at the end of November, was awarded the highest accolade by the respected Guide Hachette des Vins 2018: 3 stars. It was the only IGP Pays d’Oc to be so highly rated in this latest edition of the Guide. Our […]