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“What a wonderful white wine, brimming with character” says the Sunday Times’ wine correspondent, Will Lyons, in the October 7 edition, about the Limoux 100% Mauzac from Chateau Rives-Blanques, one of the six bottles the eminent critic recommends as a gift for your dinner party host. To read his tasting notes on another wine from the […]

The 2018 harvest vintage at Rives-Blanques kicked off on September 3, 2018, a ‘back to normal’ start date, following on after the earliest harvest in our history (2017) and the latest harvest in our history (2016). It ends on September 27, and conditions throughout, apart from a few days of extreme heat obliging us to start harvesting […]

For the eighteenth year in a row, the famous “Green Guide’  to French wines comments on the ‘freshness and elegance’ of the wines from Rives-Blanques in its newest edition.  The tasting panel favoured the ‘finesse and fruit-full flair’ of the sparkling Crémant de Limoux,  Vintage Rose, but awarded its coup-de-coeur heart to the Blanquette de Limoux […]