Winemaker Notes
Bright gold. This elegant and refined wine offers notes of ripe pineapple and citrus, pastry aromas like frangipane and croissant, white flowers like acacia and orange blossom. The oak is well integrated, and the finish is long. A great white wine made for cellaring.
Pair with baked chicken with fennel grating and mushroom risotto.
Blend: 62% Grenache Blanc, 38% Roussanne
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Coming from the la Nerthe lieu-dit and based on 62% Grenache Blanc and 38% Roussanne aged nine months in demi-muids, the 2024 Châteauneuf Du Pape Clos De Beauvenir Blanc is similarly vivid gold-hued, with a slightly more reserved yet brilliantly pure style. It reveals ripe stone fruits, honeyed flowers, crushed stone, and toasted bread on the nose. It's just about flawlessly balanced, has medium to full-bodied richness, a seamless, layered, pure texture, and a great finish. This is another world-class white from this brilliant team. There are roughly 200 cases produced, and it should keep for two decades or more if well stored. Drink 2025-2045.
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James Suckling
A stunning nose of fresh honeycomb, apricots and candied orange slices with touches of orange blossoms and wild herbs. Concentrated, juicy and beautifully balanced, the mineral acidity lifts the medium- to full-bodied palate. Fantastic interplay of fine tannins, delicate bitterness and stony minerality in the very long, precise finish.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Crafted mainly from sandy soils complemented with galets roulés, the 2024 Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc Clos de Beauvenir is terrific, offering up aromas of white fruits, spices and ripe orchard fruits. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it’s also layered and textured with a fleshy core of fruit and a harmonious mid-palate that segues into a long, spicy finish with a delicately oaky hint. This blend of 62% Grenache Blanc and 38% Roussanne was matured for nine months in large barrels.
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Vinous
Prominent linden blossom, yellow apple, white peach and a splash of herbal tea introduce the complex 2024 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc Clos de Beauvenir. Full-bodied, concentrated and extremely refined, the 2024 is such a classy, elegant Clos de Beauvenir that’s worth being discovered.
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.
Famous for its full-bodied, seductive and spicy reds with flavor and aroma characteristics reminiscent of black cherry, baked raspberry, garrigue, olive tapenade, lavender and baking spice, Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the leading sub-appellation of the southern Rhône River Valley. Large pebbles resembling river rocks, called "galets" in French, dominate most of the terrain. The stones hold heat and reflect it back up to the low-lying gobelet-trained vines. Though the galets are typical, they are not prominent in every vineyard. Chateau Rayas is the most obvious deviation with very sandy soil.
According to law, eighteen grape varieties are allowed in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and most wines are blends of some mix of these. For reds, Grenache is the star player with Mourvedre and Syrah coming typically second. Others used include Cinsault, Counoise and occasionally Muscardin, Vaccarèse, Picquepoul Noir and Terret Noir.
Only about 6-7% of wine from Châteauneuf-du-Pape is white wine. Blends and single-varietal bottlings are typically based on the soft and floral Grenache Blanc but Clairette, Bourboulenc and Roussanne are grown with some significance.
The wine of Chateauneuf-du-Pape takes its name from the relocation of the papal court to Avignon. The lore says that after moving in 1309, Pope Clément V (after whom Chateau Pape-Clément in Pessac-Léognan is named) ordered that vines were planted. But it was actually his successor, John XXII, who established the vineyards. The name however, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, translated as "the pope's new castle," didn’t really stick until the 19th century.