October 2022: a wonderful set of farewell tasting notes on JancisRobinson.com as Rives-Blanques exchanges hands from the Panman family to the Bories family

Tamlyn Currin, Jancis Robinson’s main coordinator/taster for her Languedoc selection,  gave us a farewell fanfare with a most generous and touching goodbye, and a handful of poetic, intuitive and yet thoroughly analytical tasting notes, reminding us yet again how valuable  is the insight and support of wine critics, writers and tasters to the consumer and the producer alike – and how much we all, and we personally, have benefitted from their translation of our wines.

“There is a subtle, crystalline purity that is rounded and held in a breath-taking pause […]. It has the confidence and clear-cut clarity of youth, hiding a matrix of complexity, that will segue into honeyed, mineral-tense, multi-dimensional nuances …” she said of our Odyssée 2021

Of la Trilogie she wrote: “There is a pool of stillness at its centre, encircled by eddy-lines of finely laminated silvery acidity […] a wine of compelling beauty.”

The “honeyed-hand charm” of Occitania makes it the “Panman’s wilful, wild-child faerie spirit wine” while the ‘thrumming purpose of Dédicace is to be rich”, she concluded.

Please click here to read the full article, and the reviews of other wines included in this selection of Languedoc coups de coeur; and click on the image below for greater legibility.