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VRegion: France - Cotes du Rhone
Grapes: Viognier, Picpoul, Marsanne, Clairette, Ugni Blanc, Bourboulenc
Alcohol: 13%
Notes on the Wine
Les Deux Albions Blanc shows the salty minerality typical of limestone terroir with notes of dried apricots and white flowers. The plantings near Violès include Bourboulenc, Marsanne, Viognier, Picpoul, Clairette, and Ugni Blanc, and all varieties will be included in future bottlings.
Notes on the Producer
Le Poste encircles the Saint Cosme roman chapel. It contains three very tiny parcels : one of Clairette and three of Grenache. This vine was replanted by my father Henri Barruol in 1963. The history of this vine is very special. Jean IV de Chalon-Arlay (1443-1502) was prince of Orange, seigneur d'Arlay, de Nozeroy et de Montfort. He is an ancester of the Orange-Nassau family whose Beatrix, Queen of Holland is part of. He was commonly called « Jean de Chalon, Prince of Orange ». He married in 1467 Jeanne de Bourbon,grand-daughter of the duke of Burgundy Jean Ier de Bourgogne (« Jean the Brave »). Jean de Chalon died the 8th of April 1502. He was 49. At this time in the history, Gigondas was part of Orange kingdom which became french only in 1703. In 1480, Jean de Chalon Prince of Orange, sells a « A land to plant with vines on the Saint Cosme slope ». Le Poste is mentioned as a great terroir 517 years ago. Prince of Orange sells it and my ancester Esprit Vaton buys it ten years later in 1490, along with the entire estate. In the years 1930-1940, Henri Rolland my grand-father makes every year « the white wine from Le Poste ». Its quality is well-known of everybody. It tastes of silex and it’s savoury. It ages very well. The soil of Le Poste is made with limestony yellow mall, containing a small proportion of sand in which we constantly find fossiles,very typical phenomenon of limestony malls. Le Poste always produces the most feminine and refined wine of the estate.
