Wine writer Elizabeth Gabay MW organised a comparative tasting of Chardonnay.  She admitted the panel had a ‘soft spot’ for Limoux, which has “been cultivating a reputation for outstanding Chardonnays for a while now”.  It was the region “from which we had the highest expectations” they said,  the conventional wisdom being  that “Limoux offers outstanding value for money, for combining Languedoc prices with relatively high altitude coolness and humidity.”  The two Limoux wines included in the tasting were found by the panel to be difficult to place: tasting notes ranged from “possibly Limoux” to “benchmark Burgundy”: one of them was the Chateau Rives-Blanques Odyssée 2016, a wine with “structure, balance and restraint, with long mineral acidity matched by the exotic fruit.  Restraint and complexity at the same time, and still very young.  Really beautiful”.

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