Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Based on 25% each of Grenache Blanc, Roussanne, Clairette, and Rolle and brought up on fine lees for six months in concrete, the 2024 Ventoux Domaine Blanc is bright and racy, offering honeyed citrus, tangerine, mint, and chalky minerality. It's medium-bodied and has beautifully integrated yet high acidity. It picks up a juicy, salty, incredible minerality on the finish.
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James Suckling
Green apples, limes and aromatic herbs on the nose. It’s medium-bodied with a stream of minerals in the center that brings plenty of freshness. Textural and precise. A seductive, well-rounded and delicious blend of grenache, Clairette, Roussanne and rolle (vermentino). From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2024 Ventoux Blanc from Domaine de Fondreche, a blend of unknown proportions of Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Roussanne and Rolle, is bright and precise, opening with aromas of citrus blossom, white peach and crushed stones. Medium-bodied and incisive, it’s built around a core of ripe fruit and brisk acids, with a saline, chalky finish that lends tension and length.
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.
Stretching across the slopes of the Ventoux mountain in the southeastern region of the Rhône River Valley, Cotes du Ventoux excels in the production of spicy and characterful red blends based on Grenache, Syrah, and other indigenous varieties. The region also produces rich and aromatic whites and rosés.