Château Haut-Blanville
Château Haut-Blanville
Languedoc, France
Château Haut-Blanville is a family-owned Languedoc wine estate that was founded in 1997 by Béatrice & Bernard Nivollet. The Nivollets wanted to create an estate based on the Burgundian wine model developed centuries ago, focussing on the land. Located close to Montpellier, they have been creating and crafting wines which reveal the exceptional diversity of the Languedoc. Over the past twenty years, the family have rigorously selected individual plots of land, the grapes from which are vinified separately, parcel by parcel. Their ‘vine to bottle’ philosophy has served them well over the past twenty years, proving that it’s possible to produce quality, single-parcel wines over a period when most wineries were only interested in volume and bulk wine.
Their 70 ha of vineyards extend across The Grés de Montpellier AOP, stretching from the Hérault middle valley to the Vidourle, and from the Mediterranean in the south to the Pic Saint-Loup in the north. All wines are produced without the use of animal by- products, and are in conversion to being certified vegan. Wines are produced naturally, without the use of any additions except a minimal amount of sulphur upon bottling.
AVAILABLE WINES
Blanville Reserve Réserve
Blanville
Chardonnay Réserve
Château Haut-Blanville is a family-owned Languedoc wine estate that was founded in 1997 by Béatrice & Bernard Nivollet. Their 70 ha of vineyards extend across The Grés de Montpellier AOP, stretching from the Hérault middle valley to the Vidourle, and from the Mediterranean in the south to the Pic Saint-Loup in the north. Wines are produced naturally, without the use of any additions except a minimal amount of sulphur upon bottling. From stony clay-limestone soils, this Chardonnay blends in 5% Roussanne for additional fragrance and body. The Chardonnay is fermented in stainless steel and does not undergo MLF, whereas the Roussanne is barrel fermented with full MLF.
Fragrant white blossoms, jasmine scents a creamy palate of white peach and pear, with an easy limestone lift, and lingering cracked stones. Super smart medium+ white, drinking now and on the dinner table.
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Vintage: 2025
Bottle Size: 750 mL
Bottles per Case: 12
Price per Bottle: $21
Style: Still
Region: Languedoc
Appellation: IGP Pays d’Oc
Country: France
Grapes: Chardonnay, Roussanne
Colour: White
Vegan: Yes
Organic: Yes
Biodynamic: No
Natural: No
Low Intervention: Yes
Reserve Pinot Noir Réserve
Blanville
Pinot Noir Réserve
Château Haut-Blanville is a family-owned Languedoc wine estate that was founded in 1997 by Béatrice & Bernard Nivollet. Their 70 ha of vineyards extend across The Grés de Montpellier AOP, stretching from the Hérault middle valley to the Vidourle, and from the Mediterranean in the south to the Pic Saint-Loup in the north. Wines are produced naturally, without the use of any additions except a minimal amount of sulphur upon bottling. This pinot noir comes from the limestone and basalt soils of Pézenas at 100-150m, on a cool, north-facing single vineyard.
Fragrant blackberry, plump plum flood a juicy palate, with perfumed baking spices to season, and fine, supple tannins to frame. There's an alluring stony underlay here, reflective of the profound soils of Pézenas. Great value.
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Vintage: 2024
Bottle Size: 750 mL
Bottles per Case: 12
Price per Bottle: $21
Style: Still
Region: Languedoc
Appellation: IGP Pays d’Oc
Country: France
Grape: Pinot Noir
Colour: Red
Vegan: Yes
Organic: Yes
Biodynamic: No
Natural: No
Low Intervention: Yes
Blanville
Blanville
Horus
Château Haut-Blanville is a family-owned wine estate founded in 1997 by Béatrice & Bernard Nivollet. Their goal was to find unique vineyard sites and produce single parcel, low-intervention wines when most of the local wineries were producing volume and bulk. They now own 70ha of organically farmed vineyards, and make a range of single site wines, as well as regional blends like this. Horus blends syrah and grenache into this ripe, sun-fuelled red, with baked cherry, perfumed raspberry, and ample scrubby Mediterranean herbs. Tannins are sticky and ample, though acidity is moderate, making this a natural pairing for grilled sausages / veg kabobs.
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Vintage: 2022
Bottle Size: 750 mL
Bottles per Case: 12
Price per Bottle: $22
Style: Still
Region: Languedoc
Appellation: AOP Languedoc
Country: France
Grape: Syrah, Grenache, Cinsault
Colour: Red
Vegan: Yes
Organic: Yes
Biodynamic: No
Natural: No
Low Intervention: Yes
Vermentino
Blanville
Vermentino
From the clay-sandy soils of Pézenas, this humble, low-intervention Vermentino (locally known as Rolle) is ripe with the southern France sun, and tight with fermentation and ageing in stainless. Golden apple, light pear, apple blossom is tightened with pear skin and finishes with a pithy tangerine and river stones. Simple and honest, and proper with your equally simple shellfish dishes.
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Vintage: 2020
Bottle Size: 750 mL
Bottles per Case: 12
Price per Bottle: $16.00
Style: Still
Region: Languedoc
Appellation: IGP Pays d'Oc
Country: France
Grape: Vermentino
Colour: White
Vegan: Yes
Organic: Yes
Biodynamic: No
Natural: No
Low Intervention: Yes
Address: Rieutort, 34230 Saint-Pargoire
Website : https://www.blanville.com/en/
FEATURED PRODUCERS
Carlo Ferrini is one of Italy’s best known winemakers, boasting a professional career spanning more than 30 years throughout the peninsula, and“wine offspring” that are among Italy’s most prestigious labels. In 2002, with the purchase of his first plot of land, Ferrini launched a new adventure, and a fresh challenge, but one that was really the fulfilment of a long-held passion.
Cantina del Pino is perched atop the hill in Barbaresco, overlooking the Ovello vineyard, and has been part of the Vacca family for over a century.
Etienne and Antoine, sixth-generation winemakers, are deeply committed to passing on living soils, old vines, and preserved landscapes to the next generation.
Thibault Ducroux is one of those winemakers who has been enticed by the vine from practically a toddler’s age: the son of a Beaujolais grower, he recalls how quickly he became passionate while learning the basics of the trade in his father’s cellar.
Alberto Pedrón comes from a long line of vine growers in Los Pedrones, a village of fewer than 200 inhabitants in the comarca of Utiel-Requena, Valencia.
Blanville Reserve Réserve
Blanville
Cabernet Sauvignon Réserve
Château Haut-Blanville is a family-owned Languedoc wine estate founded in 1997 by Béatrice & Bernard Nivollet. The Nivollets based their estate on the Burgundian model of terroir first, creating wines showing the diversity of Languedoc. Their 70 ha of vineyards extend across The Grés de Montpellier AOP.
Though the new label sports a Réserve title, this is the same wine as previously on our market. Crushed cassis, downy plum is hugged with sticky tannins though a stony finish. Simple and smooth and easy to crack into now.
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Vintage: 2025
Bottle Size: 750 mL
Bottles per Case: 12
Price per Bottle: $18
Style: Still
Region: Languedoc
Appellation: IGP Pays d'Oc
Country: France
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
Colour: Red
Vegan: Yes
Organic: Yes
Biodynamic: No
Natural: No
Low Intervention: Yes