Domaine de la Côte de l'Ange - Châteauneuf-du-Pape - Blanc - 2022

Wine:

A Selection Committee Favorite rated 94+/100; the 2022 white Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a confidential wine of great purity. Fresh, floral, with notes of infusion, lime blossom, and white peach, supported by a resplendent clairette, it delivers a nose of great coherence and purity, immediately seductive. The palate follows in the same vein of precision and harmony, with complete maturity and no woody overtones but fresh, saline, and pure juice, exceptionally tasty, stretching into a long, perfumed finish with subtle, persistent hints of minerality and floral. A wine that beckons at the table, with sea bass or sea bream in a salt crust, gambas with lemon and ginger. A Selection Committee Favorite rated 94+/100.

Vinification:

Hand-harvested on 1.3 hectares, these vines are 30 years old on average. Low yields of 30hl/hectare, pneumatic pressing. Vinification: 80% in vats and 20% in barrels.

Color:

Bright, clear golden yellow.

Nose:

An infusion of plants with aromas of lime blossom and white flowers. On aeration, notes of white peach emerge on a fresh, mature finish.

Palate:

On the palate, the grapes are beautifully ripe, the juice pure, with no woody overtones, saline and pure, with subtle, persistent mineral and floral notes.

Temperature:

Serve between 10 and 12°C.

Food and wine pairing:

Salt-crusted sea bass, ginger and lemon zest prawns, grilled citrus sea bream, Mediterranean salad.

Cellar aging:

From now until 2032

An ancestral Châteauneuf-du-Pape family, the Mestre family is a historic player in the appellation. The Côte de l'Ange locality gave the estate its current name, and it is now the heirs of the founders - Corinne Gasparri and her son Jules - who manage the ten hectares or so of vines, well distributed throughout the appellation and blending all soil types, from limestone and sand to clay and ferruginous substrates. 

This estate, which remains largely understated, deserves to be discovered for its perfectly crafted wines, judiciously matured in concrete vats and barrels without overdoing it.

The white grape varieties - roussanne, clairette, bourboulenc and grenache - are planted on limestone and clay to the west and make up this very rare wine from 1.3 hectares on the high-quality terroirs of Grand Devès and La Nerthe.