Winemaker Notes
The wine is star bright with greenish-yellow glints, giving off aromatics of citrus rind and pineapple and flavors of preserved lemons and green papaya.
A stand-alone variety it is particularly worthy of seafood matches possessing a fresh mineral tinged tropical complexity.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Adelaida Picpoul Blanc takes a page from the southern French countryside. TASTING NOTES: This active, fresh, and charming. Its aromas and flavors of mineral notes and bright fruit should pair well with a fresh green salad accented with grilled peach slices and a squeeze of fresh lemon. (Tasted: August 19, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
Picpoul remains one of the few wines in France named for the grape more than the place; Picpoul de Pinet refers to the white wines made exclusively from the grape called Piquepoul Blanc in the Languedoc communes of Pinet, Mèze, Florensac, Castelnau-de-Guers, Montagnac and Pomérols. Confusingly, the spelling, Piquepoul, can be used for the variety in all other appellations except for those named above. The grape is ubiquitous throughout the Languedoc. Somm Secret—Pomérols is a commune in the Languedoc-Rousillon region in the south of France and has nothing to do with the Bordeaux village of virtually the same name, Pomerol.
