Pierre Peters, Les Montjolys Blanc de Blancs Vintage:2018 Grenache Blanc and Clairette

Grenache Blanc and Clairette

More appealing are the rich

This is a vintage where managing the crop load was critical in achieving balance

but some that had stopped with significant residual sugar over the winter began fermenting again in early summer of last year

which is very fragrant and ethereal

Pierre Peters, Les Montjolys Blanc de Blancs Vintage:2018 Grenache Blanc and ClairetteThe 2013 Brut Blanc de Blancs Cuve Spciale Les Montjolys is lovely, unwinding in the glass with aromas of citrus oil, walnuts, green apple, crisp stone fruit and fresh bread. Full bodied, layered and structured, it's more gourmand and less austere than Les Chtillons but is still a taut, chiseled and notably structural wine that will really repay extended bottle age. As readers will remember, Les Montjolys is a lieu dit that sits in a small depression