Wine of the Week!

Château Saint-Cyrgues Costèries de Nîmes Blanc

Normally $14.99 / Now on Sale for $11.96
50% Roussanne, 30% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier

Château Saint-Cyrgues sits south of Nîmes in southern France, poised above the 900 hectare nature reserve, La Petite Camarque, which is all that sits between Saint-Cyrgues and the Mediterranean Sea. Managed by Swiss couple Evelyne and Guy de Mercurio, it is the southernmost vineyard in the Rhône Valley.

This wine is 50% Roussanne, 30% Grenache Blanc, 20% Viognier, all organically farmed. Thought to be native to the northern Rhône, Roussanne is a key white wine grape there. It is much less a player in southern Rhône wines, which makes it notable that the De Mercurios decided to give it the lion’s share of this white. Their south-facing vineyard provides their Roussanne with the warm temperatures and the long sunlight hours that it demands to fully ripen.

The Saint-Cyrgues Blanc is a zippy, racy, white with fine floral, citrus fruit nestled within ample acid. Saint-Cyrgues ferments it in barrels and then has it sit on fine lees in vats for four to six months, which gives a creaminess to its fruit expression.

Enjoy it as an aperitif or pair it with salads and kebobs, but don’t wait. We tasted out a bottle on a whim this past weekend, and it started walking out the door!