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Weekend Wine... Chateau La Canorgue, Viognier


Chateau La Canorgue
Viognier
2008
$13.99
$12.59 (10% off this weekend)





The Wine... Viognier is etherial and expensive when it comes from the northern Rhone, and often alcoholic and flabby when it is tried elsewhere. I am excited to have found an inexpensive Viognier which has some of the charm of the wines from the northern Rhone without any of the defects of so many of the other Viogniers I have sampled.

This Viognier is ripe and aromatic, easy to pair with flavorful seafood meals, or maybe just a basic crispy roasted chicken and vegetables. It comes from Chateau la Canorgue a 30-hectare estate farmed organically and in adherence with many Biodynamic principles in the Luberon, in central Provence.

The estate is run by an amiable father-and-daughter team. Friendliness aside, the decision to buy from Nathalie Margan  and her father had more to do with what they've done, and what they do. I've tasted  and intermittently sold the wines of this estate for at least seven years (roughly the statute of limitiations on my memory) and they have always been worth paying attention to. Quality is consistent and