2018 Domaine Richard Condrieu Cuvée M… de Martial White Rhone

A simply stunning Viognier. 

This is a dry white wine with great minerality but a wonderfully, soft and voluptuous texture. It’s a powerful wine with intense aromas of peaches and apricots with a floral and spice complexity. The balance between fruit, freshness and minerality is exemplary.

The vineyards are all on very steep slopes, which cannot be worked mechanically so everything has to be done by hand. 

This wine is produced with 100% Viognier grapes. Coming from a family vineyard slope that Hervé’s father improved 45 years ago. The whole crop is placed in a pneumatic press, no destemming. Thermo-regulated fermentation takes place in tanks, then towards the end of the process 100% of the volume is transferred into oak barrels for maturing for 12 months.