BROTTE, Essentiels, ESPRIT, AOC Côtes du Rhône, Blanc, 2024
2024, AOC Côtes du Rhône, Rhône Valley, France
BROTTE, Essentiels, ESPRIT, AOC Côtes du Rhône, Blanc, 2024
White Blend
Famille Brotte
About the Wine
With this wine, we have put all our traditional savoir-faire into the crafting of a prestigious Côtes du Rhône. This is an elegant wine with a typically big character, which celebrates the traditional grape variety, the king of the Southern Rhône Valley: the Grenache Noir. In order for this variety to express its full potential, the soil is worked sustainably with a rigorous pruning of the vine in the winter and green harvesting and leaf thinning to reduce the yield. The grapes are harvested when they reach the right level of maturity.
Tasting Notes
Appearance – Bright golden yellow hue with a few green tints. Nose – Fresh and fragrant. In its early youth, the nose shows more of a green apple and citrus character. After a year of cellar-ageing, peach and candied lemon come to the fore with a touch of honey, mango aromas and a hint of acacia blossom. Palate – When young, the wine is fresh on entry to the palate with notes of lemon, lychee and mango. The palate is complex with a good balance of roundness and acidity and is set off by aromas of grapefruit, boxwood and fresh summer fruit. After one year of cellar-ageing, the palate becomes rounder and more elegant acquiring greater length and fat with exotic fruit, acacia honey and candied lemon notes.
Pairing Notes
Enjoy as an aperitif or paired with a seafood and citrus fruit salad chicken with crayfish, sweetbreads in a white sauce and fresh goat’s cheeses.