Colombelle Selection Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh seafood platters, goat cheese salad, grilled white fish
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the sun-drenched hillsides of Gascony in South-West France, Colombelle Selection Blanc is a vibrant testament to the region's winemaking renaissance led by the Plaimont cooperative. The name 'Colombelle' evokes the 'little dove', a symbol of peace and freedom that perfectly mirrors the wine's light, soaring, and aromatic character. Crafted primarily from Colombard, a grape once relegated to brandy production but beautifully reimagined here, this wine thrives on the region's unique 'boulbènes'—fine sandy soils over clay. Benefiting from the cool night breezes blowing down from the Pyrenees and the tempering influence of the Atlantic Ocean, the grapes retain an explosive, zesty freshness. The winemaking emphasizes cold maceration and protective, temperature-controlled fermentation in stainless steel to capture the intense, fleeting aromas of passion fruit, fresh citrus, and white flowers, making it a benchmark of modern Gascon white wines.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1979 through the union of wine cooperatives in Plaisance, Aignan, and Saint-Mont spearheaded by André Dubosc, Plaimont is an undisputed viticultural vanguard in Gascony and the Pyrenean foothills. Spanning diverse terroirs across AOC Saint-Mont, Madiran, Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh, and Côtes de Gascogne, its vineyards are defined by variegated soils of tawny sands (sables fauves), limestone, and clay-rich molasse tempered by Atlantic and mountain currents. Renowned worldwide for its preservation of ampelographic heritage—exemplified by its private conservatory and historic ungrafted pre-phylloxera plots in Sarragachies—Plaimont has revived forgotten indigenous varieties such as Tardif, Arrufiac, and Manseng Noir. In white vinification, Plaimont champions crystalline freshness, precise reductive aromatic protection, and thoughtful lees contact, highlighting local Gros Manseng, Petit Manseng, and Colombard. Landmark cuvées include Cirque Nord, Les Cépages Préservés, and Les Vignes Retrouvées, presenting tensile minerality, bright citrus, exotic orchard fruit, and textural salinity emblematic of southwest France.
🍇 Grapes
Colombard, Ugni Blanc
🍷 ABV
11.5%