Winemaker Notes
This wine has a clear, bright color with limpid highlights. On the nose, notes of citrus, Granny Smith apples, and white flowers are evident. The palate is both round and fresh. It reveals delicious aromas of lemon, grapefruit, and white peach, combined with hints of lime blossom and iodine. The finish is mouthwatering and persistent. This elegant white wine can be enjoyed as an aperitif or throughout a meal.
Pair with oysters with watercress, Cervelle de Canuts, sea bream in a salt crust, fresh goat cheese with chives, melon salad with mint and strawberry soup with basil.
Blend: 50% White Grenache, 20% White Clairette, 15% Viognier, 15% Bourboulenc
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A succulent, precise and lively white with notes of green pears, white peaches, stones and some almonds. It’s medium-bodied with a fresh touch on the mid-palate. Crisp yet relaxed, with discreet fruit character in the savory, tactile finish. From organically grown grapes.
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Jeb Dunnuck
All from the clay soils just on the edge of Châteauneuf du Pape and brought up entirely in stainless steel, the 2024 Côtes Du Rhône Le Bouquet Des Garrigues Blanc is bright and fresh with a focused, clean, medium-bodied style. It offers honeydew melon, honeysuckle, minty herbs, and a kiss of minerality in a classy, balanced, lengthy profile.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2024 Cotes du Rhone Le Bouquet des Garrigues Blanc is a lively and finely balanced Côtes du Rhône, delivering aromas of citrus blossom, white peach, pear skin and crushed fennel, with a subtle saline edge. Medium-bodied and tensile, it’s built around a core of ripe yet restrained fruit, with bright acids and a gently chalky finish that lends cut and persistence. This is a precise, understated white that emphasizes clarity over texture.
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.