Vintage 2018 gave us enough grapes to make only two of our five Appellation Limoux white wines: Dédicace and Odyssée 2018. Knowing that our wines always like a year in the bottle, we decided to send one to her and keep one back a year, randomly deciding which one to submit and which one to […]
Author of the all-embracing book on the world’s rosés, Elizabeth Gabay MW turned her attention to the Languedoc, biggest producer of rosé wines in France. In the first of two tastings, devoted exclusively to appellation wines, she selected 20 of the 72 wines presented, among them the Chateau Rives-Blanques Crémant de Limoux, Vintage Rose. She […]
“I will drink this with enormous pleasure” says Rosemary George MW of our Crémant Rosé, Vintage Rose. The Languedoc wine expert and author of the definitive Wines of the Languedoc, awarded four stars and a coup de coeur to the 2017 vintage. “Elegant, fresh and nicely balanced” she said of the Rives-Blanques Vintage Rose. She tasted rosés of the entire region, from […]
The wines were judged region by region, and appellation by appellation throughout France, by the Revue du Vin de France’s top tasters; it was the first time that this tasting was done blind, and the experts had no idea who the producers were. 1800 bottle were selected, including our two Limoux whites: Odyssée 2018 […]