Winemaker Notes
This delightfully fragrant Grenache Blanc blend offers vivacious lemon, tangerine peel and white blossom notes. It's dry, zesty and spry on the palate, with chalky minerality and a lingering, pithy grapefruit flavor. A light-bodied thirst quencher.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2023 Cellier des Dauphins Les Dauphins Cotes du Rhone Reserve Blanc offers a pleasing, mouthfilling experience. This wine shows aromas and flavors of aromatic spices, hints of flowers, and citrus peel. Try this a mildly-spiced bouillabaisse. (Tasted: October 8, 2024, San Francisco, CA)
Full-bodied and flavorful, white Rhône blends originate from France’s Rhône Valley. Today these blends are also becoming popular in other regions. Typically some combination of Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier form the basis of a white Rhône blend with varying degrees of flexibility depending on the exact appellation. Somm Secret—In the Northern Rhône, blends of Marsanne and Roussanne are common but the south retains more variety. Marsanne, Roussanne as well as Bourboulenc, Clairette, Picpoul and Ugni Blanc are typical.
Typically thought of as a baby Chateâuneuf-du-Pape, the term Côtes du Rhône actually doesn’t merely apply to the flatter outskirts of the major southern Rhône appellations, it also includes the fringes of well-respected northern Rhône appellations. White wines can be produced under the appellation name, but very little is actually made.
The region offers some of the best values in France and even some first-rate and age-worthy reds. Red wine varieties include most of the Chateâuneuf-du-Pape varieties like Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Cinsault, and Counoise, as well as Carignan. White grapes grown include Grenache blanc, Roussanne and Viognier, among others.