Domaine la Réméjeanne Côtes du Rhône Les Arbousiers Blanc 2024

Domaine la Réméjeanne Côtes du Rhône Les Arbousiers Blanc is a five-variety white built on the estate's oldest white plantings.

White Côtes du Rhône is a small part of the appellation, and at Réméjeanne, in the limestone hills at Sabran on the right bank, it is taken as seriously as the reds. Les Arbousiers is not the estate's most expensive white — that is the Roussanne-led Les Églantiers — but it draws on the oldest white vines, including a parcel of Bourboulenc planted in the early 1970s by Olivier Klein's grandfather François. This year the certified organic blend runs Clairette 30%, Roussanne 30%, Bourboulenc 20%, Viognier 10% and Marsanne 10%, with the Bourboulenc contributing more freshness than its share suggests. The grapes are whole-bunch pressed and ferment with natural yeasts, the Roussanne in 1800-litre foudre and the rest in concrete vats, then rest six months on fine lees before blending.

Drinking well now and worth three or four years. Serve at 10-12°C with roast chicken, grilled prawns or a herb-heavy vegetable tart.

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