Côtes du Rhône Blanc E. Guigal 2011

The Côtes du Rhône Blanc is an elegant white wine, realized with 55% of Viognier and a little percentage of Roussanne, Marsanne, Clairette and Bourboulenc: the wine has a brilliant golden yellow colour and it is limpid, too. The smell is really fresh and it presents the typical aromatic taste of Viognier, in addition to floral and acacia’s flowers hints, besides apricot’, white peach’ and exotic fruit’s smells. If you taste it you can recognize freshness, balance, and it is perfect in combination with fish starters, fish dinners and other typical oriental platters.

Built by Etienne Guigal in 1946, the property hosts a big assortment of wines, which are known all over the world from more than 2400 years. After that, in 1995 the winery has bought the celebrate Chateau d’Ampuis, an important historical and oenological memorial, whose history is connected with the title ‘Cote-Rotie’. The castle of the estate is concentrated in vineyards and it adjoins with the Rodano river, and then it is become a general headquarters of the Guigal Estate. The procedures of viticulture are always in conformity with the environment: moreover, all is oriented towards the prevention of vineyards’ parasitics . The Cote-Rotie vineyards capture a locality of 230 hectares, and they have been planted by the Romans 24 centuries ago!