Chateau de Campuget 'Tradition de Campuget' Costieres de Nimes Blanc, Rhone, France

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Spices and grilled nut aromas are found in the nose of the 1999 Chateau de Campuget (white). Medium-bodied and oily-textured, it offers excellent richness and breadth in its dense, fresh apricot and honeydew melon-flavored personality. This extremely well-made, fresh, and fleshy wine should be consumed over the next two years. It is an excellent value. Importer: ROBERT KACHER SELECTIONS, 2015 Vine Street NE, Washington, DC 20018; tel. (202) 832-9083; fax (202) 529-2579

Campuget's 1996 Blanc, a Grenache Blanc, Clairette, and Roussanne blend, offers an attractive, moderately intense, honeyed, citrusy nose, terrific fruit purity, medium body, a lush, open-knit texture, and an excellent dry finish. It is a delicious, mouthfilling, dry white that requires consumption over the next 8-12 months. I find it ironic that importer Robert Kacher, who is justifiably renowned for his portfolio of top-flight Burgundies (aged largely in new oak casks), does especially fine work in under $20 wines that never see one day in oak! The Domaine du Campuget wines are tank-fermented and aged. Excellent values.The wines reviewed in this segment are the finest Campuget wines I have yet tasted. Many readers are already familiar with the glorious wine bargains that this domaine has produced in the past from this region, just south of Avignon in the Mistral-beaten, lunar-landscape-like area that is the corridor between the southern Rhone valley and Languedoc-Roussillon. Many of our nation's small quality importers have discovered that the finest wines of Costieres de Nimes merit serious attention. Prices are still a bargain, but do not expect that to last long given today's international wine market.Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832-9083

The 1995 Blanc, an intriguing blend of Grenache, Clairette, Roussanne, and Chardonnay, is a perfumed, dry, richly fruity, medium-bodied white wine that is ideal for drinking over the next 8-12 months. It displays some honey and rose petal notes, but the primary emphasis is on non-oaked fruit. This wine has a vibrant, refreshing style with more character than readers would expect for its lowly price. It is an exceptional value.Chateau du Campuget continues to produce terrific bargains that have been justifiably supported by both the wine trade and the consuming public.Robert Kacher: 2015 Vine Street NE, Washington, DC 20018; tel. (202) 832-9083, fax (202) 529-2579

The 1994 Costieres de Nimes, a 50% Grenache Blanc, 20% Cinsault, and the remainder Roussanne and Viognier blend, offers an amazing amount of honeyed fruit flavors for its lowly price. This heady, ripe, fresh, medium-bodied, dry white wine should be drunk over the next year. Buy it by the case. Chateau de Campuget has an enviable track record as a perennial crowd-pleaser.Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832-9083. Both of these offerings are best buys.

Chateau de Campuget's excellent, dry, meaty, lively, chewy, rich 1993 white wine is made from an intriguing and innovative blend of Roussanne, Grenache Blanc, and Rolle. With surprising body and flavor intensity, it is best consumed with the spicy soups or the garlic-based dishes of southern France. Importer: Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC.