Tardieu-Laurent Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc Vielles VignesV

Wine Notes

This comes from various sites around Châteauneuf, including Font de Michelle. 40% Grenache Blanc, 30% Roussanne, 20% Clairette and 10% Bourboulenc, the latter two varieties bringing freshness and moderating the overall alcohol content. This is such a chiselled, energic wine, brilliantly focused and linear. White flowers and nervy minerality, driving through to a long, taut finish. Really exciting stuff. It is fermented in barrel with eight months lees contact, half of the Roussanne being aged in new oak barrels.