016 Gérard Bertrand Cote de Roses (Languedoc) white (blanc)

The 2016 Gérard Bertrand Cote de Roses (Languedoc) white (blanc) – and a Rosé is also around. They come in fantastically elegant bottles with long, thin necks, a paper rose at those necks, a glass stopper and a bubbled base ('in the shape of a rose, created by a young designer from the Ecole Boulle'). It's equally fantastic – and I mean that descriptor literally (mainly because a Grenache Blanc wine is so rare in Oz) – to see the white made of Grenache (Blanc), Vermentino and Viognier. Irresistible creamy, buttery drinking in a bright gold.