Les Traverses Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled white fish, fresh goat cheese, light summer salads
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the wind-swept slopes of the Ventoux appellation in the southern Rhône, Paul Jaboulet Aîné's 'Les Traverses' Blanc is named after the traditional dry-stone retaining walls ('traverses') built to terrace the steep hillsides and prevent soil erosion. Dominated by the imposing presence of Mount Ventoux—the 'Giant of Provence'—this terroir benefits from a cooler microclimate than much of the southern Rhône, allowing the grapes to retain a vibrant, refreshing acidity. Crafted primarily from Grenache Blanc and Clairette, this wine is vinified entirely in stainless steel tanks to preserve its bright, aromatic profile. It captures the essence of the Provençal countryside, offering a beautiful balance of white flower aromas, stone fruit, and crisp mineral undertones.
🍾 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, Clairette, Bourboulenc
🍷 ABV
12.5-13.5%