Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
grilled fish, roasted chicken, goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
As one of the historic benchmarks of the Rhône Valley, Paul Jaboulet Aîné crafts white wines that beautifully capture the diverse terroirs of this legendary region. While the estate is globally renowned for its monumental reds, their white wine portfolio showcases an equal dedication to elegance and complexity. Drawing from both the steep, granitic terraces of the Northern Rhône and the sun-drenched, stony soils of the Southern Rhône, these whites are defined by their aromatic intensity and textured mouthfeel. Under the guidance of winemaker Caroline Frey and the estate's transition to organic and biodynamic farming, the winemaking philosophy emphasizes minimal intervention. This approach coaxes out the natural freshness, stone fruit aromatics, and mineral tension inherent to classic Rhône white varieties, resulting in wines of remarkable balance and gastronomic versatility.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1834 by Antoine Jaboulet on the sun-drenched granite slopes of Tain-l'Hermitage, Maison Paul Jaboulet Aîné stands as one of the Rhône Valley's most storied viticultural estates. Acquired in 2006 by the Frey family, the domain experienced a profound renaissance under the stewardship of master oenologist and viticulturist Caroline Frey, who converted its extensive Northern Rhône holdings to certified organic viticulture alongside rigorous biodynamic regimens. While globally renowned for its legendary Hermitage reds like La Chapelle, the estate crafts equally sublime white wines from premier terroirs spanning Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Condrieu, and the Southern Rhône. Here, Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier, and Grenache Blanc are harvested at meticulous phenolic maturity from complex alluvial pebbles, loess, and fractured granitic soils. Vinified with gentle gravity flow, temperature-regulated fermentation, and judicious French oak contact on fine lees, Jaboulet whites—exemplified by Chevalier de Stérimberg, Domaine de Thalabert Mule Blanche, and Les Jalets Blanc—deliver exceptional minerality, textural waxiness, and refined age-worthy precision.
🍇 Grapes
Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier
🍷 ABV
13-14%