Saint-Hilaire, Blanquette de Limoux 2015, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Tasting Note: A fun, uncomplicated, dry sparkler that affords crémant style with more comforting, ripe fruit than you typically expect in a French sparkling wine.

Blanquette de Limoux is a crémant composed 90% from the Mauzac grape in Languedoc.

The grape is known for its green-apple aromas and flavors and its rustic nature.

Pale-intensity lemon in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of green apple, pear, blossom, lemon peel and white apricot.

On the palate the dry, medium-bodied Blanquette de Limoux delivers ripe fruit flavors suggested on the nose and some tart citrus flavors on the medium-plus finish.

Bottle Note: France’s oldest sparkling wine. Created by the Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire over 450 years ago; more than 100 years before the first champagne was created. Brut Methode Traditionnelle.