Domaine Chante Cigale Les Vignes d'Alexandre Blanc - This wine is stunning, a classy but restrained white Rhone style. Straightaway your nose is alerted by a subtle fragrance of freshly cut pears and white blossom. The tropical fruit on the palate is simply amazing showing tremendous concentration without being too intense. Fantastic, it's exciting, it's unusual and unoaked.
Domaine Chante-Cigale is owned by the Favier-Sabon family - it's been in their hands for generations and is one of the oldest in the region - and occupies some 40 hectares comprised of different parcels of land around the village of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, located between Orange and Avignon.
Recently Christian Favier the father released the reins to his son, Alexandre, who is fast becoming new rising star of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Despite only being in his early 20's he has been lauded by notable journalists Steve Danzier in the US and Jancis Robinson in the UK.
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