Ripe and creamy up front, with butter-framed melon, creamed peach and pear notes that are then offset by a stony edge on the fresh finish. Blossoms in the glass. Bourboulenc, Viognier, Marsanne and Clairette. Drink now through 2013. 200 cases imported.
The 2010 Cotes du Rhone Coudoulet Blanc (30% Viognier, 30% Bourboulenc, 30% Marsanne and 10% Clairette) offers up scents of white peaches, wet stones, spring flowers and apricot marmalade. Best drunk in its first 4-5 years of life.