- BrandPierre Gonon
- CountryFrance
- RegionRhone
- TypeWhite Wine
- Size750ml
- SKU 210000049194
96 Points Jeb Dunnuck
Review Date: 05/2025
"Coming from one of the top white wine producers in the Northern Rhône, the 2022 Saint Joseph Les Oliviers Blanc is a stunning effort offering loads of stone fruits, quince, honeysuckle, and golden apple notes. It's medium to full-bodied, beautifully balanced, and has a gorgeous sense of freshness paired with perfectly ripe fruit. This brilliant Saint Joseph Blanc will give a top Hermitage Blanc a run for its money. It should drink well for a decade or more."
"A perfumed, delicate bouquet of white pear, acacia, flowers, honey and spices introduces the 2022 Saint Joseph les Oliviers Blanc, a medium to full-bodied, layered and textured white Saint-Joseph framed by a racy spine of acidity and a long, mouthwatering and ethereal finish. This is a real success."
• Lieu-dit of Les Oliviers regarded as the greatest for producing white grapes in the Saint-Joseph appellation; vineyard is situated on the terraces above the town of Tournon, just across the river from Tain l’Hermitage
• Grapes are harvested by hand
• Only indigenous yeasts are used
• Whole clusters are pressed gently with a pneumatic press
• Juice settles for 12 hours before being racked into fermentation casks
• Wine ages in barrique and demi-muid on fine lees for 11 months, undergoing a regular stirring of the lees