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2013 Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc

Barruol Lynch
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Back in 1988, I invited Gérard Chave and Jean-Marie Raveneau to my place in Provence to help celebrate my marriage. I told them that they produced my two favorite white wines: Chave’s Marsanne and Raveneau’s Chardonnay. I now have a number of great Chardonnays, but the search for worthy Marsannes has been a quest.
    This Côtes du Rhône blanc is not Marsanne (nor is it from the northern Rhône, the cradle of great Marsanne), but it quenches my thirst for Marsanne—it acts like Marsanne! Fresh and ripe with white peach and honey, it makes a deep, rounded impression on the palate, and is so versatile at table. I blended for immediate pleasure in this totally satisfying dry white. –Kermit Lynch

Technical Information
Wine Type: white
Vintage: 2013
Bottle Size: 750mL
Blend: 80% Marsanne, 20% Roussanne
Appellation: Côtes du Rhône
Country: France
Region: Southern Rhône
Producer: Barruol Lynch
Winemaker: Louis Barruol
Vineyard: 25 years average, 0.4 ha
Soil: Alluvial with galets roulés
Aging: Aged for 5 months in barrels, then blended and bottled in the spring following the vintage
Farming: Lutte Raisonnée
Alcohol: 13%

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Every three or four months I would send my clients a cheaply made list of my inventory, but it began to dawn on me that business did not pick up afterwards. It occurred to me that my clientele might not know what Château Grillet is, either. One month in 1974 I had an especially esoteric collection of wines arriving, so I decided to put a short explanation about each wine into my price list, to try and let my clients know what to expect when they uncorked a bottle. The day after I mailed that brochure, people showed up at the shop, and that is how these little propaganda pieces for fine wine were born.—Kermit Lynch

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