Taste the Grape Viognier - Half Dozen
Peach • Apricot • Blossom
There are many factors that contribute to the flavour of a wine, including the winemaking process, but the single most important is the grape variety. Our Taste the Grape Half Dozen offers the opportunity to sample five different styles from across the world, all made from the same grape variety, providing insight into its unique character and versatility.
VIOGNIER AROUND THE WORLD
When it’s good, Viognier is a peach-scented, round, rich white with a succulent edge and a nuttiness that gets more pronounced with age. This is an ancient variety believed to have originated in Dalmatia (present-day Croatia). It was brought to the Rhône Valley, its spiritual home, by the Romans. By the late 1960s, it was very rare, almost extinct, in the Rhône, mostly on the granite slopes at Château Grillet but since then, it has undergone a renaissance and is now planted in many wine-producing countries around the world.
Vintage may vary depending on availability
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Andrew Murray Vineyards Viognier, Santa Barbara 2023
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Andrew Murray Vineyards Viognier, Santa Barbara 2023
Quantity included: 1From Santa Barbara County, this super Viognier delivers fresh, intensely aromatic whaffs of tangerine, white flowers and passion fruit. The palate is creamy almost oily in texture, with luscious peach and apricot notes coming to the fore. Delicious!
White Wine
100% Viognier
Dry & full
Drink or Keep
2023
13.5%
75cl
Organic
Fina 'Vola Vola' Viognier, Sicilia 2025
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Fina 'Vola Vola' Viognier, Sicilia 2025
Quantity included: 2With straw colour, a very, very silky texture and loads of weight, this is a great example of Viognier. Dynamic producer, Bruno Fina, grows the grapes at 750m, ensuring that the delicate orange and apricot aromas are kept intact.
White Wine
100% Viognier
Dry & full
Drink Now
2025
Chicken, Coronation
13%
75cl
Condrieu, Coteaux de Chery, André Perret 2023
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Condrieu, Coteaux de Chery, André Perret 2023
Quantity included: 1A clean fresh nose, with floral tones. Very attractive on the palate with super balance, the freshness coping admirably with a rich weighty fruit and demonstrating a chalky mineral note under sweet white peach fruit and super succulence on the finish.
France, Rhône Valley, Northern Rhône, Condrieu
White Wine
100% Viognier
Dry & full
Drink or Keep
2023
14%
75cl
Churton Viognier, Marlborough 2024 (organic)
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Churton Viognier, Marlborough 2024 (organic)
Quantity included: 1Wonderful Viognier with aromas of peach and blossom leading to a concentrated palate with white fruits and good freshness and much more elegant than many.
New Zealand, New Zealand, Marlborough & South Island, Marlborough
White Wine
100% Viognier
Dry & full
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2024
15%
75cl
Vegetarian
Vegan
Organic
La Petite Ferme Viognier, Franschhoek 2025
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La Petite Ferme Viognier, Franschhoek 2025
Quantity included: 1Peach fruit combines with frangipane to give a complex wine with spicy hints and underlying almond nuttiness. Some barrel maturation has given depth and concentration rather than oaky flavours.
South Africa, South Africa, Stellenbosch & Franschhoek, Franschhoek
White Wine
100% Viognier
Dry & full
Drink Now
2025
13.5%
75cl
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