And they included the Blanquette de Limoux from Rives-Blanques! Her selection of the top 25 sparkling wines included three from Limoux, an extraordinary amount from such a small appellation. The Rives-Blanques Blanquette de Limoux is pictured here, sandwiched next to Bollinger, Veuve Clicquot and the English Nyetimber champagnes. The full article can be read on […]
“Wine critics can make or break a reputation”, says Caryl Panman of Chateau Rives-Blanques. “They offer wine growers like us a unique opportunity to place our wines in the context of the greater, overall international picture. The opinion of people like Jancis Robinson – informed, incorruptible, and exceptionally talented – really matters, and is only […]
“Wellness in the glass, and also in the pocket” says the Limburger daily newspaper in the south of the Netherlands about our chardonnay-chenin country wine, in its edition of November 3, 2012.
The doyenne of wine writers, Jancis Robinson, published in her Purple Pages today the results of a tasting of 180 wines from the Languedoc Roussillon, a “glorious part of the world”. The Languedoc is ” home to probably hundreds of artisan winemakers who make lovely wines chock full of terroir and interest” – but many […]
These sparkling wines really earned their medals, says France’s foremost wine magazine, after tasting the gold-medal winning wines of the competition of the Crémants de France. The Rives-Blanques Vintage Rose 2009 was given 14.5 pts, the top score after their ‘coup de coeur’. “Strong aromas of strawberry, straightforward, full and soft but of firm […]