2024 Côtes-du-Rhône Blanc Signature, Famille Perrin 'Signature'

• Style: Bright Southern Rhône White Blend
• Taste: Lemon peel, nectarine, white blossom, stone fruit, floral
• Food: Shellfish, roasted chicken, creamy risotto, soft cheeses
• Occasion: Weeknight drinking, summer aperitifs, Sunday lunch
• Serve: Cool, 13% ABV, stainless-steel fermented

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Lifted citrus of lemon peel and nectarine greets the nose, followed by delicate white-blossom perfume. On the palate, glossy texture and real acidity carry stone fruit and floral character through to a clean, appetite-driven finish. This is a wine built for easy drinking and constant reaching back to the glass — vibrant fruit held in check by freshness and structure, with no oak weight to mask its primary aromatics.

The Winery — Famille Perrin

Since 1950, the Perrin family has farmed organically at Château de Beaucastel, convinced that clean viticulture reveals the true sense of place in the finished wine. The 2024 Signature range — a blend of Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier — draws from certified organic vineyards near the village of Vinsobres, in the cooler, higher-altitude north of the southern Rhône, where the soils are a mix of gravel, clay and limestone. The vintage demanded constant vigilance in the vineyard, yet the August-to-October harvest brought each block in at perfect maturity, balanced and expressive. Cool fermentation in stainless steel and deliberate cold settling after pressing preserve the wine's lifted aromatics.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

This is the wine for seafood nights and warm-weather entertaining. Pair it with roasted chicken, butter-sauced white fish, creamy risotto, or vegetable dishes where its acidity and floral notes shine. Soft cheeses and light salads welcome it equally. At 13% ABV, it's a natural aperitif on summer evenings or the reliable midweek pour when you want something clean and unpretentious. If you're building a collection of Grenache Blanc & Roussanne, or browsing the wider Côtes-du-Rhône shelf, this benchmark demonstrates that organic farming and precision winemaking belong together — no compromise, no complexity for its own sake, just the wine the vineyard intended to make.