Reserve de Bonpas Luberon Blanc 2017
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Expressive of fresh summer fruits (apricot, peach) with exotic mango notes. It then opens up to flavors of citrus fruit and white flowers (acacia, hawthorn). A fresh lively attack on notes of white flowers. This wine is very harmonious, revealing good balance with roundness, and flavor that persists on the palate.
Ideal as an aperitif or with oysters, grilled sea bass.
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While the nose is demure, the palate of this medium-bodied white offers loads of fresh white grapefruit, peach and apricot flavors. Made from a blend of Clairette, Grenache Blanc, Ugni Blanc and Vermentino, it's fresh and fruity yet edged by veins of salt and chalk.
#6 on Top 100 Wine Enthusiast Best Buys of 2019
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.
A cooler region precisely between Ventoux and Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence, Cotes du Luberon is a source of full-bodied rosés and crisp, herb-driven reds and whites.