Winemaker Notes
Le Bouquet des Garrigues Blanc is a stunning wine from the estate, combining finesse and freshness. This is an elegant wine offering mineral notes at first. After a few minutes with air, it gains in richness and shows loads of juicy peach, citrus, rosewater notes. On the palate, it shows a deep and clean structure with honey and pineapple notes. It has a very pure texture with a precise and pure finale.
Pair with fennel salad with pesto, grilled red mullet, fresh Gillardeau oysters, sea bream ceviche with avocado and passion fruit or chicken filet in light cream and asparagus.
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Even better, the 2020 Côtes Du Rhône Bouquet Des Garrigues Blanc is seriously good, offering notes of pear, tart pineapple, toast, and a kiss of minerality. With brilliant purity of fruit, medium body, integrated acidity, and a great finish, this Cotes du Rhone will give many a top Châteauneuf du Pape Blanc a run for their money. The blend is 40% Clairette Rosé, 30% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier, and the rest Roussanne. Drink bottles over the coming 2-3 years.
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Wine Spectator
Racy and enticing from start to finish, offering white peach, star fruit and yellow apple notes infused with honeysuckle, verbena and lemon shortbread hints. Bright and nicely defined finish. Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Clairette Blanche and Roussanne. Drink now.
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.