You can follow a short harvest report daily on www.twitter.com/RivesBlanques or click on Diary of a Vineyard at www.rives-blanques.com After a slow start in the early hours of September 3 & 7, the 2009 harvest at Rives-Blanques got properly underway on September 11 – exactly in line with 2008 to a day. In spite of […]
The Financial Times of Belgium, de Tijd, splashed the wines of Limoux all over the front cover of its weekend supplement on 25 July, praising the diversity and excellence of ‘the majority of the interesting white wines made by the minority of the appellations winegrowers’, the small, independent family-run vineyards. The writer of the article, […]
France’s leading monthly wine publication, La Revue du Vin de France published the results of its nationwide tasting of the 2008 vintage in its June 2009 issue. Of the top fifteen white wines from the Languedoc, four were from Limoux – an astonishing result for an appellation that produces only 500,000 bottles in total. These […]
The Bath Festival is the highlight in the cultural calendar of this beautiful UNESCO-protected city in England, famous for its Roman baths and a rich literary tradition – personified by the internationally celebrated and universally loved Jane Austen. Bath is currently celebrating the 61st edition of its hugely ambitious music and literature fests, bringing together […]
The respected American wine publication, Wine Enthusiast awarded 90 pts to the Rives-Blanques chardonnay, Cuvée de l’Odyssée, calling it « a terrific Chardonnay from Limoux, an area more typically known for its Blanquette (which uses the Mauzac grape) but certainly not limited to it. It’s a ripe and rich wine, loaded with aromas of red apple, […]