Mas Champart’s Pays d’Oc white (previously called Monts de la Grage) is a fascinating blend of ancestral Languedoc varieties, Terret (80 percent) and Grenache Gris (20 percent), the former from 110-year-old vines, its meagre progeny picked late and then vinified in large wooden vats.
The wine is appropriately different, with hints of salinity underscoring a mid-palate profile, which is dominated by grapefruit, quince and poached pear. Notes of honey and spice are also evidenced and the finish is powerful; an unusual but most impressive example. Exactly the kind of wine, all too seldom unearthed, which shows off the rich diversity of the heritage of the Languedoc.

A wine of tremendous concentration, the 2012 is an uncompromising but not unapproachable expression of Domaine Gauby’s terroir. Minerality is the key, attributable to a band of schist that sweeps in a quarter-circle from Languedoc to Priorat. Vine roots here can reach a depth of six metres, tapping into rich nutrients and accessing water throughout the year - essential in 2012, when Roussillon was struck by drought.
La Roque is long on the palate and longer still in the memory: black pepper, no shortage of ripe black fruit and that marvellous, unswerving minerality.
Will Heslop - Buying Department

All wines are unique but some are more unique than others. Domaine Gauby’s La Roque Blanc has few peers among the white wines of Roussillon or anywhere else. Whole bunches of Muscat Blanc à Petit Grains and Muscat of Alexandria macerate for between ten and twenty days – an eternity in the context of white winemaking. Fermentation relies exclusively on indigenous yeasts.
The result is an astonishing array of aromas, including honeysuckle, orange blossom and fresh lemons; honed to a long, precise finish.
Will Heslop - Buying Department

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A blend of Syrah and Carignan, black olive, pepper and bramble fruits play on the nose. Spice and garrigue add complexity on the palate. The firm, fine-grained tannins are well integrated, with juicy fruit density and a mineral backbone. Delicious.

As recently as 1973 there were no vines at Domaine de Trevallon, a startling thought given the world renown this estate has deservedly garnered. Of the 17 hectares currently under vine, only two are dedicated to the cultivation of white grapes, 45% Marsanne, 45% Roussanne and 10% Chardonnay.

The soil on the slopes of the Alpilles (25km south of Avignon) is composed of limestone and boasts sharp, jagged crests. These geological features when combined with the olive groves and almond trees, give the region an air of rural Greece, a charm which has certainly bewitched Eloi Durbach, as it did the Provencal poet Frédéric Mistral before him.

The nose is currently somewhat in the shadow of the oak in which it has been aged, however a bit of persistence reveals sweet tropical fruit, star anise and elderflower. The palate is smooth and rounded with a pleasing level of butter; however there is a linear acidity which keeps the wine fresh. This wine has a great sense of place and purpose.
Nicholas Stewart, Buying Department