Our archive of past
'Diary of a Vineyard'

16 Feb 2011
Two Rives-Blanques wines among the thirty selected to be "Ambassadors of the Languedoc" after a region-wide tasting

11 Feb 2011
February 2011: In the Swing

30 Jan 2011
January 2011: New Year, New Wine, New Resolutions

21 Dec 2010
December 2010: May All Our Christmases be White

26 Nov 2010
November 2010: The world's most published wine-writer publishes a new book De Duizend van Duijker with a wonderful write-up on Rives-Blanques ...

24 Nov 2010
Dec. 10 et 11: Visitez-nous au Grand Tasting dans le Louvre!

23 Nov 2010
October 2010: Cuvée Occitania takes to the skies as The Special Wine on board KLM ...

22 Nov 2010
November 2010; Not Yet Said and Done

21 Oct 2010
October 2010: It was a Very Good Year

20 Sep 2010
September 20: The Harvest is on!

5 Sep 2010
Guide Hachette selects a wine from every appellation made by Rives-Blanques in its new 2011 Guide

30 Sep 2010
September 2010: The Waiting Game

26 Aug 2010
August 2010: The two top tasters in France, Bettane & Desseauve, published their Grand Guide des Vins de France 2011 this month, giving a smiley to Rives-Blanques

21 Aug 2010
August 2010: Les Meilleurs Vins de France 2011, the famous 'green guide' published by La Revue du Vin de France, includes the Rives-Blanques range.

28 Aug 2010
August 2010: Busman's Holiday

24 Jul 2010
July 2010: On a High

28 Jun 2010
June: critical mass.

2 Jun 2010
Rives-Blanques featured amongst the best wines of the millésime for the 9th consecutive year, by La Revue du Vin de France

31 May 2010
For our Belgian friends: dinner at the Michelin-star Eyckerhof Restaurant

15 Jun 2010
Les Vinifilles are back! Dégustation gourmande a Sete, 19 Juin!

13 May 2010
May 2010: New Gold Medals for Rives-Blanques

15 May 2010
May 2010: May Day!

1 May 2010
April 2010: Truly Fooled.

31 Mar 2010
For Easter: The Spectator makes a special offer of our Chardonnay-Chenin ...

16 Mar 2010
The Rives-Blanques sauvignon blanc a special feature at ProWein

30 Mar 2010
March 2010: Over before you know it.

26 Feb 2010
February 2010: A Tough Job

21 Jan 2010
Meet us at Vinisud !

31 Jan 2010
January 2010: Once in a Blue Moon

16 Dec 2009
December 09: The Blanquette de Limoux from Rives-Blanques sparkles in the Financial Times top 30 Christmas fizz list

16 Dec 2009
December 2009: May all your Christmases be White

24 Nov 2009
Meet us at Le Grand Tasting in Paris, December 4 - 5!

19 Nov 2009
Jancis Robison writes more about Limoux in the Weekend Financial Times

12 Nov 2009
The inimitable Jancis Robinson comes to Limoux !

12 Nov 2009
For our Dutch friends Hubrecht Duijker schrijft over Rives-Blanques!

20 Nov 2009
November 2009: On the Road

24 Oct 2009
October 2009: The American Wine Enthusiast magazine features two wines from Rives-Blanques in its November issue ...

24 Oct 2009
October 2009: Making the Miracle

23 Sep 2009
For our Dutch friends: Hubrecht Duijker about Rives-Blanques in the FD Persoonlijk

16 Sep 2009
September 2009: The harvest is on!

29 Sep 2009
September 2009: Harvest!

31 Aug 2009
August 2009:The heat is on

30 Jul 2009
For our Belgian friends: Belgium's leading Financial Times de Tijd investigates the wines of Limoux in a full, front-page article, and choses Cuvée Occitania as its Bottle of the Week ...

31 Jul 2009
July 2009: In the Pink

30 Jun 2009
June: Flower Power.

1 Jun 2009
Chateau Rives-Blanques included for the ninth consecutive year amongst the best wines of the year by La Revue du Vin de France

22 May 2009
May 2009: Come what May.

23 Apr 2009
Rives-Blanques chosen as the house-wine of the famous Bath Festivals of Literature and Music ...

23 Apr 2009
April 2009: Power Showers

3 Apr 2009
For our Dutch friends, follow this link to Perswijn for news on the 'beautiful white wines of Limoux': http://www.perswijn.nl/nieuws/1057/rives-blanques---prachtig-wit-uit-limoux.html


9 Mar 2009
March 2009: The American wine publication Wine Enthusiast selects the Rives-Blanques chardonnay Cuvée de l'Odyssée as its Best Buy of the month ...

27 Mar 2009
March 2009: Mad as a Hatter

28 Feb 2009
Meet us in the South of France .... at ProWein, Stand C 60 in Duesseldorf!

23 Feb 2009
February 2009: Slow Wine and Speed Tasting

2 Feb 2009
The Rives-Blanques chenin blanc, Dédicace, chosen as an Ambassador of the Languedoc ...

25 Jan 2009
January 2009: Blanques in Name, Blanques in Nature

17 Dec 2008
For our Swedish friends: a new book on the Languedoc and its wines features Rives-Blanques ...

22 Dec 2008
December 2008: Christmas Bells, Baubles, Bubbles ... and Boars

21 Nov 2008
A Master Class Tasting of Languedoc wines at Rives-Blanques on 4 December

21 Nov 2008
Again for our Dutch friends, Gert Crum choses La Trilogie as the wine nobody should miss out on in Lekker, the glossy 2009 Guide to the 500 best restaurants ...

27 Nov 2008
November 2008: A Flight of Wines

1 Nov 2008
For our Dutch friends: de Telegraaf features the Rives-Blanques chardonnay, Cuvée de l'Odyssée, as one of the best Autumn wines in Holland ...

29 Oct 2008
October 2008: The Party Goes On!

16 Sep 2008
Monday 15 September 2008: The harvest kicked off Rives-Blanques today, about a week later than last year...

30 Sep 2008
September 2008: Harvest!

29 Aug 2008
August 2008: Writing on the Wall

1 Aug 2008
The September edition of Decanter magazine features the Rives-Blanques top dog, Bruno as Top Dog of the Month...

23 Jul 2008
July 2008 Vine Lines

9 Jul 2008
"For our Dutch friends: what Perswijn says about Limoux in general and Rives-Blanques in particular ..."

30 Jul 2008
July 2008: Flights of Fancy

6 Jul 2008
The 'gorgeous' Rives-Blanques chardonnay in good company, and at a good price, in the latest edition of The Spectator ...

26 Jun 2008
June 2008: A Month of Milestones.

31 May 2008
Rives-Blanques amongst the best wines of the millésime for the 7th year in a row ...

18 May 2008
April 2008: The Rives-Blanques special blend, La Trilogie wins a gold medal at Macon!

31 May 2008
May 2008: Sunny Showers and Magic Spells

29 Apr 2008
April 2008: Coming up Clover

29 Mar 2008
March 28, 2008: For our Dutch friends - what De Telegraaf said about Rives-Blanques today.

22 Mar 2008
March 31, 2008: Two silver medals distinguish the first appearance of the new millesime of two Rives-Blanques wines this month ...

29 Mar 2008
March 2008: A month of Weining & Dining - with feasts, fetes, foires - and the Ides besides.

4 Mar 2008
Meet us ProWein in Dusseldorf this month!

4 Mar 2008
Le Monde says the Rives-Blanques special blend, La Trilogie, does 'honour to the Languedoc' ....

28 Feb 2008
February 2008: Views, Vines, Wines and Vinisud

3 Feb 2008
Join us at Vinisud! Rives-Blanques whites in the very good company of some outstanding reds and rosés in Hall 4 B 40 ...

31 Jan 2008
January 2008: The New Vintage Begins

21 Dec 2007
December 2007: White is Right for Christmas

30 Nov 2007
November 2007: Someone's got to do it ...

4 Oct 2007
A Premier Class Odyssey on Aer Lingus!

18 Oct 2007
October 2007: When all is said and done.

29 Sep 2007
The 2007 harvest at Rives-Blanques kicked off on 04 September this year, a week later than last year ...

30 Sep 2007
September 2007: Harvest Song

30 Aug 2007
Patrick Dussert-Gerber's famous Guide des Vins 2008 includes three wines from Rives-Blanques....

30 Aug 2007
August 2007: The Waiting Game

19 Jul 2007
Cuvée Occitania flies high as the 'Special Wine' served on KLM's World Business Class

28 Jul 2007
July 2007: Lying Low, Flying High

27 Jun 2007
June 2007: Blowing hot and cold

5 Jun 2007
Cuvée Occitania adds mauzac to the music at Rives-Blanques by winning a Great Gold Medal from the Competition of the Great Wines of Languedoc-Roussillon...

20 May 2007
Meet us at the London Wine Fair Stand I 50/5 in the French pavilion!

17 May 2007
The Rives-Blanques Chardonnay, Cuvée de l'Odyssée wins its third gold medal of the year!

5 May 2007
Cuvée de l'Odyssée,the Rives-Blanques flagship chardonnay, wins its second gold medal of the year.

26 May 2007
May 2007: of Dédicace, Dedications and the Dedicated.

3 May 2007
April 2007:

17 Mar 2007
Meet us at ProWein ... and taste the reds and rosés on offer as well!

10 Mar 2007
The Rives-Blanques chardonnay, Cuvée de l'Odyssée, is awarded a coveted gold medal from the international wine competition organised by the Union of Oenologists of France

26 Mar 2007
March 2007: The world's the limit

27 Feb 2007
February 2007

27 Jan 2007
Taste the wines of the Aude with one of the greatest experts in the region, on March 10 at Rives-Blanques ...

15 Jan 2007
Taste Rives-Blanques in Singapore, 19, 20 and 21 January

30 Jan 2007
January 2007: Temperature swings and Singapore slings

20 Dec 2006
December 2006: Dreaming of a White Christmas (wine, that is)

24 Nov 2006
November 18, 2006: Jane MacQuitty, wine writer of the London Times calls the Rives-Blanques Chenin Blanc, Dédicace the ‘Star Wine’ in her annual selection of the 100 best Winter Wines …

24 Nov 2006
The Rives-Blanques Chardonnay du Domaine in Frank van der Auwera's Guide to the best 300 wines under € 10.00, Wijnkoopgids 2007

24 Nov 2006
November 2006: Pure Gold

10 Nov 2006
Chateau Rives-Blanques Blanquette de Limoux shortlisted as one of the ten best sparkling wines by the Dutch wine magazine, Perswijn's global tasting ....

9 Nov 2006
Decanter choses Cuvée Occitania as one of the best wines of 2006, while Steven Spurrier meets the New Blood in the Midi and finds some interesting red wines alongside the Rives-Blanques whites

5 Oct 2006
The respected Guide des Vins Dussert-Gerber mentions the mauzac, Cuvée Occitania, for the first time in its newly published 2007 edition ...

25 Oct 2006
October 2006: Fêtes, Feasts and Fermentation

4 Sep 2006
The earliest recorded harvest in the history of Rives-Blanques kicked off on 29 August ...

1 Oct 2006
September 2006: The harvest is on!

31 Aug 2006
August 2006: all eyes on the harvest

17 Jul 2006
July 2006: too hot for words

1 Jul 2006
The July issue of La Revue du Vin de France features a Rives-Blanques wine on its front cover, and includes it as one of 60 vineyards worth visiting in France this summer..

1 Jul 2006
June 2006: a mixed bag

20 May 2006
La Revue du Vin de France selects the best wines of the 2005 millésime throughout the country, and names two from Rives-Blanques ...

1 Jun 2006
May 2006: May Days and Play Days.

28 Apr 2006
We're in good company at the International London Wine & Spirits Fair - Stand 140 2B/2C - where we will be showing the full range of our white wines alongside a stunning array of reds ...

1 May 2006
April 2006: Lock, stock and ... barrel tastings

2 Mar 2006
Monday 6 March at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel & Towers in Belgium ...

30 Mar 2006
March 2006: heydays and high days

17 Mar 2006
Top 100 bottles at ProWein 2006: many were called, and our Picharelle 2004 chardonnay was chosen ....

4 Feb 2006
For the first time ever, the Limoux appellation will have its own stand at Vinisud ...

28 Feb 2006
February 2006: Vines, Wines & Vinisud

27 Jan 2006
La Revue du Vin de France makes some timely discoveries in Limoux in its latest edition ...

6 Jan 2006
January 2006: Snowed Under ...

23 Dec 2005
December 2005: Dreaming of a White One ...

21 Nov 2005
Double Happiness: Rives-Blanques wins gold and silver in China ...

29 Nov 2005
November 2005: Nothing to do?

5 Nov 2005
October 2005: Millésime in the Making.

2 Oct 2005
The 2006 edition of the venerable Bible of all guides to French wines, The Guide Hachette has come out, and includes the Chateau Rives-Blanques 'Trilogie de Limoux' ....

30 Sep 2005
September 2005: All Eyes on the Harvest

2 Aug 2005
Cuvée de l'Odyssée judged to be Best in its Class ...

24 Aug 2005
August: at home and abroad

21 Jul 2005
July 2005: Summertime!

25 Jun 2005
Steven Spurrier calls our Blanquette de Limoux ' a lovely Champagne substitute' in this month's Decanter ...

16 Jun 2005
Rives-Blanques is at Vinexpo in Bordeaux, on the stand of our French agent, Saint Auriol in Hall 2 L 31 ...

28 Jun 2005
June 2005: Hands full, fingers crossed.

30 May 2005
Two Rives-Blanques wines are mentioned in La Revue du Vin de France's selection of the best wines of the millésime throughout the country

7 May 2005
Rives-Blanques at the London Wine Fair, Stand I60 ...

30 May 2005
May: Hills alive with the sound of Mauzac ...

22 Apr 2005
Two medals from the revered Concours des Grands Vins de France in Mâcon for Rives-Blanques ...

26 Apr 2005
April 2005: of Saints and Winners

6 Apr 2005
Cuvée de l'Odyssée 2003 wins a silver medal from the Chardonnay du Monde world wine competition, and another one from the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles ...

25 Mar 2005
March 2005 - the full meal

3 Mar 2005
A trio of silver medals from the Concours Général de Paris & Vinalies Internationales (Oenologues de France) ....

17 Feb 2005
Un événement a ne pas rater! France-Vins (table 39) le 21 de février, pres de Bruxelles ...

17 Feb 2005
Onze wijnen staan op de tafel (no. 39) op de France Vins beurs in Brussel op 21 februari ...

9 Feb 2005
February 2005 - Blanques in name ...

31 Jan 2005
We'll be at the South of France Wines Trade Exhibition at Lord's Cricket Ground on Tuesday February 15 ...

24 Jan 2005
January 2005: In a state of vegetative repose ....

26 Dec 2004
December 2004: Multi-tasking.

30 Nov 2004
Oz Clarke, the 'most entertaining wine writer in the world' says some serious things about Cuvée de l'Odyssée in his latest Wine Buying Guide ..

29 Nov 2004
November 2004: A Month of Decisions.

11 Oct 2004
Op 14 oktober is Rives-Blanques aan boord de Prins van Oranje in Amsterdam ...

14 Oct 2004
The Harvest is On!

27 Sep 2004
Exactly 24 days after last year's harvest began (and a week after it was all over) this year's harvest started today ...

16 Oct 2004
Guide Hachette 2005 gives a star each to three of our AOC Limoux wines ...

3 Sep 2004
Dussert-Gerber's Guide des Vins de France 2005 falls for our chenin blanc ...

27 Sep 2004
September 2004: Heading for the Harvest

13 Aug 2004
Please come and see us on Sunday September 12 at the van Otterloo Wijnhandel stand at KunsthalKOOKT in Rotterdam ....

31 Aug 2004
August 2004: Flying high

26 Jul 2004
July 2004: Fame, flames and fireworks

29 Jun 2004
June 2004: The crucial month ...

1 Jun 2004
France's most distinguished wine magazine puts Occitania , made from the traditional mauzac grape, at the top of the Limoux appellation ...

25 May 2004
More silverware for Odyssée

12 May 2004
At the Great Western Wine Company's stand H16 in the Agents' area is where you will find us ...

4 May 2004
Four winners in our four wines entered at Brussel's internationally famous wine competition ....

1 May 2004
May 2004: Fairs, False Friends and True Blends

30 Apr 2004
Two times two new medals for Cuvée de l'Odyssée (chardonnay) and Dédicace (chenin blanc) ...

1 Apr 2004
April 2004: Planting the Chenin

1 Mar 2004
March 2004: Coming Up Roses.

1 Feb 2004
February 2004: The Most Noble Task of All.

1 Jan 2004
January 2004: A Month of Highs.

1 Dec 2003
December 2003: In a state of vegetative repose.

1 Nov 2003
November 2003: Not so Boar-ing!

1 Oct 2003
October 2003: The Party is Over!

1 Sep 2003
September 2003: The Harvest is On!

1 Aug 2003
August: 2003: So hot even the sunflowers are running for cover.

1 Jul 2003
July 2003: So hot even the sunflowers are running for cover.

1 Jun 2003
June 2003: A Flourishing Floraison.

1 May 2003
May 2003: Coming Up Clover.

11 Apr 2004
116 barrels of chardonnay were sold at France’s second most important barrel auction, the Toques & Clochers in Limoux on Palm Sunday, for an average price of 3,244.00 euro …

24 Mar 2004
Gold, Silver and Bronze: our chardonnays bring neat Olympian symmetry to this month of medals ....

1 Mar 2004
The third silver medal of the year comes our way - from the Concours Général de Paris: this one for Cuvée de l'Odyssée ...

19 Feb 2004
Cuvée de l'Odyssée '02 (chardonnay) and Dédicace '02 (chenin blanc) both scooped up silver medals at their first presentation to an international jury of the world's greatest wine experts this week ..

9 Feb 2004
Today we bottled our Chardonnay du Domaine 2003 and our chenin blanc botrytised dessert wine from the late October harvest of 2001

4 Feb 2004
Today, in thick mist, we bottled the sunshine : the Chardonnay du Domaine 2003 and our chenin blanc botrytised dessert wine from the late October harvest of 2002 …

22 Dec 2003
We will be presenting our seven wines in Hall 4 (Alley A, stand 7) at the next Vinisud 2004 in Montpellier...

27 Nov 2003
Today we harvested the last of the mauzac. Cold rain fell short....

22 Nov 2003
Trumpets, bugles and a rolling drum call announced the admittance of Rives-Blanques to the noble order of Tastavins e Gargamelos de Limos en Occitania on Saturday....

23 Oct 2003
An open-house at the winery yesterday marked the end of our construction phase, and the launch of our new Trilogie de Limoux…

01 Oct 2003
The highly respected agronomist/oenologist Georges Pauli has joined the team at Rives-Blanques...

21 Sep 2003
This year’s harvest got off to a brilliant start on September 3...

16 Aug 2003
Our Blanquette de Limoux 2001 won a bronze medal from London's International Wine & Spirit Competition, while our oak-fermented chardonnay, Cuvée de l'Odyssée 2001, which recently won a silver ....

1 Jul 2003
A trilogy of AC Limoux wines - a chardonnay, a chenin blanc and a mauzac - is being bottled today at the domaine....

6 Jun 2003
France’s leading wine publication, La Revue du Vin de France included our AC Limoux Cuvée Occitania in its roundup of the Best of the 2002 Wines of France this month....

4 May 2003
Jan and Caryl Panman with Eric Vialade, the wine maker, will be pleased to meet you at Stand G40 at the London International Wine and Spirits Fair (May 20-22).

1 May 2003
A silver medal for the Cuvée de l'Odyssée and a gold for our Blanquette!

16 Apr 2003
"This is one of the greatest chardonnays in France," the celebrated chef Alain Passard told hundreds of potential buyers at the Toques & Clochers barrel auction of AOC Limoux ...

29 Mar 2003
When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, Blanquette de Limoux made up about 10% of his legendary wine cellar, and was the only sparkling wine found there...

21 Mar 2003
Today we're bottling 10,000 litres of chardonnay vinified in stainless steel vats, and 11.600 litres of chardonnay aged 4 months in oak barrels ...

16 Jan 2003
It's springtime in Languedoc ... in London, on Feb. 13! Everything is new and exciting in one of the 'old' world's oldest yet most dynamic wine regions.

7 Nov 2002
A red-letter day for Limoux: the new AOC Limoux Rouge is declared: “Limoux has just written one of the greatest pages in the history of its viticulture” reported the Dépêche de Midi

29 Oct 2002
The Harvest is on Again! In brilliant sunshine, under a clear, cold cobalt sky, we harvested the chenin blanc which had been affected by pourriture noble, ‘noble rot'...

23 Sep 2002
The Harvest Is On! Clear blue skies, golden sunshine and a gutsy gusty northerly wind got our harvest off to a brilliant start today...

26 Sep 2002
A special cuvée of 5000 bottles of hand harvested chardonnay, fermented in stainless steel and lightly aged in oak, was bottled.

31 Aug 2002
Actor Jeremy Irons declared our Blanquette to be an “absolutely delicious fizz” as he auctioned it off for charity.

15 Jul 2002
La Revue du Vin de France included our 2001 AOC Limoux in its national roundup of the best wines of the year in France.

30 Jun 2002
For Scandinavian importers of fine wines, we will be presenting our wines at the Børsen in Copenhagen on November 4.

24 Mar 2002
Palm Sunday 2002 - A record-breaking €6,600 was paid for a single barrel of AOC Limoux at the Toques & Clochers auction.

31 Oct 2001
Our Blanquette de Limoux was selected at a national blind tasting for the prestigious Chef de l’Annee Trophy ceremony in Paris.