Parallele Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled white fish, fresh goat cheese, roasted chicken with herbs.
✨ Technical Specifications
Named after the 45th parallel north, which runs just two kilometers from the estate's cellars in Tain-l'Hermitage, Paul Jaboulet Aîné's Parallèle 45 Blanc is a historic symbol of the transition into the sun-drenched southern Rhône Valley. This classic white blend captures the vibrant, aromatic spirit of the region. Crafted from grapes grown on clay-limestone and gravelly soils, the wine is vinified entirely in stainless steel tanks at controlled temperatures to preserve its bright, primary fruit character and crisp acidity. The result is a beautifully balanced, expressive white wine that weaves together the floral elegance of Viognier, the structure of Marsanne, and the fresh, fleshy stone-fruit notes of Grenache Blanc.
🍾 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, Viognier, Bourboulenc
🍷 ABV
12.5% - 13.5%