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white grape · regional staple

Grenache Blanc

Aragon, Spain

Say it

greh·nahshblon

/ɡʁɛˈnaʃ blɑ̃/French

Nasal vowel in blanc has no English equivalent; approximate as 'blon' (rhymes with French 'bon'). Final consonants in both words are silent.

On the palate

white peachapricotlemonfennelhoney

How you spot it blind: richly textured with low acidity and a distinctive dill-fennel herbal note

The story

Grenache Blanc is a white somatic mutation of Grenache Noir with identical DNA except for pigmentation genes, its Aragonese origin confirmed by clonal diversity analysis in Robinson, Harding, and Vouillamoz's Wine Grapes.

Where it lives

Roussillon, France · Southern Rhône Valley, France · Terra Alta, Spain · Languedoc, France

Shows up as

still whitefortifiedChâteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

If you like this, try

Marsanne →Roussanne →Viognier →

Also answers to Garnacha Blanca, Garnatxa Blanca.

Shop our Grenache Blanc bottles
These describe the classic expression of the grape. Skin contact, carbonic and other low-intervention winemaking — which we love — can bend all of them.