This lovely little wine is a new line of ours at Winetime so we'd thought we'd give it a try.
Domaine St-Dominique is a great producer located in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, quite close to the world reknowned Château de Beaucastel. This is a Côtes du Rhône Blanc made from Viogner and Clairette grape varieties. Viogner has been brought to the limelight via the supreme wines of Condrieu but Clairette remains still a fairly unknown grape vareity despite its ability to add a certain finesse to wines.
To look at the wine, we see the famed paille colour, like golden straw. Nice fatty wine.The wine on the nose gives of plentiful aromas of fresh, ripe peaches and we also have violets in exuberence. Once tasted, lashings of peaches and apricots on the palate. A dry wine with the undercover sweetness of the fruit also perceivable. The flavours are knitted together well and the wine was very well balanced in terms of fattiness and acidity.
This is a poor man's Condrieu - yet not in the least bit inferior. A class wine!
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