Antoine Gerbelle and Alexis Goujard, two top tasters for La Revue du Vin de France, dived deep in their selection of summer fizz for the Sunday magazine of France’s leading daily newspaper, le Monde. They covered the sparkling wines of Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne, the Loire Valley and the Languedoc. Of the Rives-Blanques Blanc de Blancs, which headed the Languedoc list, they said it was a ‘fresh and flavoursome aperitif”.