A chapter of the Rhinegold Festivals publication devoted to giving good tips to festival-goers who combine picnics with culture, homed in on the Rives-Blanques chardonnay-chenin carrying the colours of the Music & Literature Festivals of Bath, UK. “Clean, crisp, refreshing and dry”, their writer wrote, “This unoaked style allows the citrus and honey flavours of […]
The 2009 vintage was a good one in the Languedoc … for white wines coming from high places, according to France’s leading wine publication, La Revue du Vin de France in its exhaustive annual roundup of the best wines of the millésime throughout the country. A wet winter and spring followed by a dramatically dry […]
The Italian wine writer Guiseppi Carrus features the Languedoc in Gambero Rosso’s April edition. “The small but beautiful and interesting” Rives-Blanques vineyard was highlighted in this thoughtful overview of the world’s biggest wine region. Special emphasis was placed on Limoux, home of Blanquette de Limoux “the first sparkling wine in history”. Carrus cites a happy […]
The style of white wines has changed enormously over the past years: in the eighties, there were very few exceptions to bland mediocrity; but at the beginning of the nineties, a complete revolution took place. This was the beginning of the Golden Age of barrel-vinified white wines, where the lees gave richness and aroma to […]
Simon Hoggart, The Spectator’s wine correspondent, who also doubles up as a famous parliamentary sketch writer, found the Rives-Blanques Pays d’Oc (chardonnay-chenin) to be “deliciously light, yet capable of standing up to hearty meals”, and featured it in The Spectator’s special offer for Easter.