For our tasting today Wine-Searcher's Wine Director, David Allen MW, reviews a white wine from the Cotes du Rhone region. This is Mont-Redon's Reserve Cotes Du Rhone Blanc from the 2023 vintage. The wine is quite aromatic, showing some lovely Viognier character, it is pretty well made and offers some pretty good value.
Château Mont-Redon is the largest wine producer in Châteauneuf-du-Pape with more land under vine than any other wine estate in the region. It produces both red and white wines from the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, as well as wines from estate vineyards in Lirac, Cairanne, and in the wider Côtes du Rhône winemaking zone.
The estate's history is one of the longest in the southern Rhône Valley, dating back to 1344 when the officially recognized vineyard was known as Mourredon. In the 1920s, the château's vineyard land greatly expanded as parcels were pieced together by Henri Plantin, whose decendents (the Fabre-Abeille) family still run the estate today.
Château Mont-Redon owns 186 hectares (460 acres) of land in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, 100 hectares (247 acres) of which are planted to vines. Red grape varieties, including the classic southern Rhône trio of Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre, make up 80 percent of plantings. White varieties planted include Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne. All 13 allowable varieties of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape are cultivated in the estate's rocky, stony, red clay, sandy and limestone soils.
Wines labelled, as this one is, as Reserve, are wines selected, blended. matured and bottled by the Fabre family, but that are not estate grown.
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