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"Un domaine à suivre" Guide des Vignobles & des Vins de France
"Ce domaine n'a pas fini de nous étonner" Guide Hachette des Vins
"Vin comme nous les aimons" Guide Dussert-Gerber Vins de France
"Des vins de grande classe, et inclassables..." Guide Gault Millau
"Clean fresh and stylish wines"
Clive Coates, MW; Encyclopedia of the Wines & Domaines of France

The Wine Press

Limoux's "wines of light" have been celebrated ever since Titus Livius coined that memorable phrase in the 1st century, and today's wine writers are celebrating them still. Please click here to see what they are saying Limoux's wines today, and click on the link below to read what they write about Rives-Blanques.

Our Written Press

September 2006: The Irish Independent writes about women in wine, and bills Caryl as one of the 'Princesses of Wine' ... - 2006/10/20

September 2006: Chris Kissack, the internet's respected Wine Doctor, features Rives-Blanques on his popular website - 2006/09/30

September 2006: Vino magazine in the Benelux selected the Rives-Blanques second-label chardonnays in its tasting of the best of the region's Vins de Pays d'Oc ... - 2006/09/29

September 2006: The respected Guide des Vins Dussert-Gerber mentions the mauzac, Cuvée Occitania, for the first time in its newly published 2007 edition ... - 2006/09/04

August 2006: The Guide Rouge puts two Rives-Blanques wines at the top of the appellation - 2006/08/31

August 2006: French Wine Guide Gilbert & Gaillard selects the Cuvée d l'Odyssée from Rives-Blanques - 2006/08/24

August 5, 2006. Christine Austin of The Yorkshire Post talks to three winegrowers in the South of France - 2006/08/16

July 15, 2006: The Irish Times Magazine recommends a visit to Rives-Blanques. - 2006/08/15

July 2006: La Revue du Vin de France features Cuvée Occitania on its front cover and includes Rives-Blanques in the 60 vineyards worth visiting this summer in France. - 2006/07/01
May 13 2006 The Irish Times selects Cuvée de l'Odyssée as its Bottle of the Week - 2006/06/27
May 2006: La Revue du Vin de France publishes its list of the best wines of the 2005 millésime nationwide, and includes two from Rives-Blanques. - 2006/05/20
May 2006: From Russia with love - Russia's gourmet food & wine magazine 'Chef' features Rives-Blanques in its latest issue - 2006/05/07
February 2006: Two Rives-Blanques wines selected for the ProWein special edition of WeinMarkt in Germany - 2006/05/07
April 2006 The latest edition of the Dutch magazine for Francophiles, En France reminds its readers there's more to bubbles ... - 2006/04/16
March 2006: Tom Stevenson's Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia, the classic reference to the wines of the world, hails Cuvée Occitania from Chateau Rives-Blanques ... - 2006/03/03
March 2006: Expansion discovers the sparkle in Limoux ... - 2006/03/02
February 2006: La Revue du Vin de France discovers that there is more to Limoux - and Rives-Blanques - than Blanquette - 2006/01/27
December 2005: !SICA gives the Chateau Rives-Blanques Blanquette de Limoux a 'coup de coeur' in its Christmas edition - 2005/11/29
November 2005 The 2006 Guide to the Best Wines for the Best Prices came down heavily in favour of Chateau Rives-Blanques ... - 2005/11/09
October 2005 1000 Vins du Monde 2006 published by the Oenologues de France was came out this month with its selection of the best 1000 wines in the world. - 2005/10/02
October 2005 South of France: How to find Great Wines off the Beaten Track by Jonathan Healey (Mitchell Beazley) is the adventurous wine-buyer's 'must-have'. - 2005/10/02
September 2005 Guide Dussert-Gerber Vins de France 2006 comes out this month favouring our chardonnay, Cuvée de l'Odyssée and our Blanquette de Limoux .... - 2005/10/02
September 2005 Our Trilogie de Limoux makes it into Guide Hachette 2006 - 2005/10/02
July 2005 Decanter Magazine's Steven Spurrier choses Chateau Rives-Blanques Blanquette de Limoux ... - 2005/06/25
May 2005 La Revue de Vin de France's annual roundup of the best wines of the millésime include two from Rives-Blanques ... - 2005/05/28
05 March 2005 L'Indépendant du Midi: Dédicace gets food/wine writer Daniel Bailbé out of a pickle ... - 2005/03/06
Feb 11, 2005 L'Echo makes a magic mix of Blanquette and Carnival ... - 2005/02/19
16 January 2005 - The Dépêche du Midi covers the late late winter harvest at Rives-Blanques ... - 2005/01/15
December 2004 "Pure pleasure from the South of France" is how the Dutch celebrity food and wine writer, Nicolaas Klei, describes our Blanquette ... - 2004/12/20
November 2004Oz Clarke, the 'world's most entertaining wine writer' had some serious things to say about Cuvée de l'Odyssée in his new Wine Buying Guide. - 2004/11/30
November 27 The UK's Daily Telegraph choses our Blanquette de Limoux as a cure for Christmas Affected Doom Depression and Despondency... - 2004/11/29
November 25, 2004: Our Blanquette gets a "coup de coeur" from the Midi Libre ... - 2004/11/26
Oct 31, 2004: La Depeche du Midi recommends the Chateau Rives-Blanques Blanqette ... - 2004/11/03
13 October 2004 An "Open Door" at Rives-Blanques puts us back in the news in the region's daily La Dépeche du Midi - 2004/10/25
September 2004 Simon Hoggart, the well-known British columnist and wine writer had a few sage words about our Blanquette in The Spectator late this month ... - 2004/10/25
September 2004: The Queen of Irish wine writers, Mary Dowey, chose a Domaine Rives-Blanques chardonnay as her bottle of the week ... - 2004/10/25
September 2004: Guide Hachette 2005 comes out with some nice things about Chateau Rives-Blanques - 2004/09/16
September 2004: Dussert-Gerber's award-winning Les Guides des Vins de France 2005 has something nice to say about Rives-Blanques ... - 2004/09/05
l'Indépendant, August 21, 2004 This newspaper's special supplement Guide des Vins Blancs puts Rives-Blanques on the map - 2004/09/05
Bath Life July 2004 Edward Mercer takes a look at the wines of Limoux and Chateau Rives-Blanques - 2004/07/16
1000 Vins du Monde, La sélection 2004 des Oenologues de France includes two wines from Chateau Rives-Blanques ... - 2004/07/12
La Revue du Vin de France,June 2004 Nous avons beaucoup aimé ... Occitania - 2004/06/01
La Revue du Vin de France May 2004: Journalists from France's leading wine magazine come to Rives-Blanques in search of Limoux's identity. - 2004/05/01
De Spits February 2004: Dutch wine writer Janna Rijpma visits Rives-Blanques and is seduced by its wines - 2004/02/01
Wine International, February 2004: Dedicace (AC Limoux) is the only French non-Loire chenin banc to make the cut in this respected publication’s global tasting. - 2004/02/01
Gusto, January 2004: Hungarian journalists pay a surprise visit to Rives-Blanques and discover Blanquette de Limoux - 2004/01/01
Reussir Vigne, December 2003 : The respected French trade magazine affirms that Jan & Caryl are hands-on workers, ‘not investors’ - 2003/12/01
L'Indépendant, November 2003: - 2003/11/09
La Depeche du Midi, October 2003: This daily newspaper is interested in the newest wines in the appellation : Cuvee Occitania, (mauzac) and Dedicace (chenin blanc). - 2003/10/22
L’Independant, October 2003: The daily newspaper does an in-depth report on the renovated facilities at Rives-Blanques. - 2003/10/21
Meilleurs Vins a Petits Prix, September 2003 : The annual guide to the best wines at the best prices includes Cuvee Occitania. - 2003/09/01
La Revue du Vin de France, August 2003 : The respected French monthly wine magazine includes Cuvee Occitania (mauzac) in its annual roundup of the best wines of the 2002 millesime. - 2003/08/01
Roundabout, July 2003 : Holland’s only English-language monthly cultural guide interviews us at Rives-Blanques and devotes several pages to the story of Blanquette de Limoux. - 2003/07/01
La Revue du Vin de France, June 2002 : The doyen of French wine publications includes our Cuvee de l’Odyssee 2001 in its roundup of the best wines of the millesime. - 2002/06/01
Le Paysan du Midi, May 2002 : This agricultural daily is excited about the clover being planted at Rives-Blanques between rows of vines as a weed deterrent. - 2002/05/01

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