Author: Dirk Chan
Our special this week is the 2019 Dubard Château Laulerie Viognier (Bergerac, France) – $17.27 (regularly $22.99)
In the late 1970’s, the Dubard family founded their first wine estate, Château Laulerie, in the western part of the Bergerac wine region called Montravel. Throughout the years, the family restored life to two additional wineries located on the right bank of the Dordogne river, in the wine appellations of Lalande de Pomerol and Puisseguin St Emilion.
With its dry white, rosé and red wines, Château Laulerie offers the unique harmony resulting from the alliance between a contrasted but mild climate and a complex calcareous soil. Only planted in 2016, Chateau Laulerie’s signature Viognier began to unveil its personality by the 2019 vintage, fully expressing its three most sought-after qualities; tension, glycerin texture, minerality and aromatic maturity.
With a nose signalling perfumed honeysuckle, gently stewed apricots and pear, on the palate the trademark Viognier characteristics can be found, namely a fleshy and round vivacity and flavours of ripe peach, apricot and mango with a refined oily finish.
Great as an apéritif, it can also make a great companion to an avocado crab salad or a meaty fish like monkfish.
2019 Dubard Château Laulerie Viognier (Bergerac, France) – $17.27 (regularly $22.99)