Thalabert Mule Blanche
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled or pan-seared white fish, roasted poultry with herbs, and creamy goat cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the historic house of Paul Jaboulet Aîné, 'Mule Blanche' is a benchmark white Crozes-Hermitage that pays homage to the white mules that historically labored in the stony vineyards of the estate. Grown on the flat, sun-drenched alluvial terraces of the chassis plain, where the soil is covered in heat-retaining galets roulés (rounded stones), this wine is a classic, harmonious blend of equal parts Marsanne and Roussanne. The Marsanne provides structure, weight, and notes of honeysuckle and stone fruit, while the Roussanne contributes elegant aromatics, acidity, and floral lift. To preserve this delicate balance, the wine is partially vinified and aged in French oak demi-muids and concrete eggs, resulting in a beautifully textured white wine with both rich complexity and a vibrant, mineral-driven finish.
🍾 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, Roussanne