My favourite white girlfriend
As everyone knows, the world's finest white wines come from Burgundy. For my favourite white friend, however, the wind has to blow you 600 kilometres west, to the Graves in the Bordeaux region. In the unsightly village of Léognan, at the end of the Chemin Peyssardet, you'll find Château Carbonnieux: a 17th-century chateau where a gruesomely delicious wine is made from the love affair between a Sauvignon Blanc and a Sémillon.
After her birth, Chef d'entreprise Eric Perrin and his team give the wine a light wood ageing, so she dances softly and playfully across your tongue and you just want to take another sip after each sip. To describe the bouquet of this singing golden temptress, you could shake the entire wine writer's wastepaper basket: 'Gooseberries, peach, lychee, exotic fruit', you know it all. Small pity is that this Cinquième Grand Cru costs a pretty penny. The Appie - bravo! - offers it for 36 quid a bottle. For the owner of Château Carbonnieux himself, probably
a handout, but for the mere mortal it's still quite a rib's width. Especially if, like me, you want a whole box right away. But I can assure you, every drop is worth it.
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