Belleruche Blanc

A lovely wine with a core of citrus peel and white fleshed pomaceous fruits. There’s a floral and saline quality as the wine opens out through the bouquet and then palate. Crisp and dry, textured and fresh, a wine that gets better and better as it relaxes in glass. Flavours of citrus and white peach, apple and flowers framed by chalky fruit tannins and mineral stony qualities. Don’t chill this wine too much it is lovely at around 12 Celsius. Best drinking from day of purchase through 2028.

Grenache blanc, roussanne, viognier, clairette fill the voluminous palate of this CdR blanc, sourced mainly from stony marl soils and clay limestone slopes. A ferment and short 5 month stint in stainless help preserve freshness, which is welcome. Perfumed quince, fragrant pear glide along the silken palate, buffered with a pad of lees, and finishing with lingering white blossoms. There's an easy freshness to lift this fuller (14%) white along, and assist with food friendliness.