Mule Blanche Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted chicken, grilled sea bass with lemon-butter sauce, goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic Crozes-Hermitage appellation in the northern Rhône, 'Mule Blanche' pays a poetic tribute to the white mules that historically labored alongside vignerons, navigating the steep, stony terraces to haul harvested grapes. This organic and biodynamic white wine is crafted from vines grown on alluvial soils rich in shingles, clay, and limestone. To balance richness with vibrant acidity, Paul Jaboulet Aîné vinifies and ages the wine in a combination of French oak demi-muids and concrete eggs. The result is a beautifully textured white, marked by white flower aromas, stone fruit, and a distinctive mineral finish that reflects its unique terroir.
🍾 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
Marsanne 50%, Roussanne 50%
🍷 ABV
13-13.5%