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Stunning Value White Bordeaux

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2015 Chateau Mont-Perat Bordeaux Blanc 750 ml

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Parker’s “Highly Recommended” Bordeaux Blanc

Parker Highly Recommended Bordeaux Blanc

Robert Parker is in love with the offerings from Bordeaux’s Despagne family. In one of his many laudatory tasting notes, Parker singled out the family behind the sensational 2015 Château Mont-Pérat Bordeaux Blanc as consistently producing “absolutely sensational value whites and reds.” He also said that the Despagnes’ wines “can compete with the region’s more hallowed names” — high praise from the critic who has made his own formidable name scrutinizing those very producers. Château Mont-Pérat turns out a beautiful, supple, and spice-tinged Sauvignon Blanc-based white Bordeaux that earned 91 points and a straightforward endorsement from Parker’s Wine Advocate: It’s “a really quite gorgeous Bordeaux blanc that comes highly recommended.” A stunning value at $17.99 to be stacked by the case.

The Despagne family is steeped in their beloved Entre-Deux-Mers, the area of Bordeaux that lies between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers, just east of the city of Bordeaux — a veritable hunting ground for excellent-value dry white wines.

The Despagnes took control of the 130-year-old Le Pérat estate in Entre-Deux-Mers in 1998, when it was in total disrepair. In addition to renovating the château and the winemaking facilities, the family tackled the forbidding chore of replanting the entire 247-acre limestone-and-clay vineyard.

What made this task so daunting is also what makes the Mont Pérat terroir so special: The estate’s elevation varies from 200 to nearly 400 feet in elevation. The steep slopes are a bear to work with, but provide optimal drainage and varied exposures for the Despagnes’ young vines.

Judging by the raves Robert Parker has given these “outstanding producers” over the years, it’s no surprise that their rehabilitation of what is now Château Mont-Pérat has been a success.

“The Despagne family make absolutely sensational value whites and reds,” Parker says, calling their wines “all impeccably well-made.” The 2015 Château Mont-Pérat, which Wine Advocate calls “quite gorgeous Bordeaux blanc that comes highly recommended” with 91 points, is the kind of wine that embodies Parker’s enthusiasm for the Despagnes and their massively over-delivering Bordeaux.

Jonathan Cristaldi

Editor-in-Chief, Wine Access