Laroche La Chevalière Chardonnay Pays d’Oc 2025
£11.95
The wine
Bright golden yellow, with an expressive nose full of citrus, white peach and green mango.
Chardonnay was the point of the purchase: Laroche went looking for a southern site that could give the variety freshness, and the estate sits on higher ground away from the coastal plain. Pays d Oc is the regional IGP covering the whole Languedoc, and it gives growers the freedom to plant and blend varieties the local appellations would not permit. The region spent most of the twentieth century making bulk wine and has transformed since the 1990s more dramatically than anywhere in France.
The producer
Laroche La Chevalière
View all Laroche La Chevalière winesLa Chevalière is the southern French range of the famed Chablis house Laroche. Michel Laroche bought the Mas la Chevalière vineyards near Béziers in 1995, after a ten year search for a Languedoc site suited to Chardonnay.
Laroche transformed the vineyards and built an innovative, energy conscious winery on site. Winemaker Géraud Blanc leads the team, crafting wines that balance the richness and ripeness of the Languedoc with a welcome freshness.
The range offers pure, well made varietal wines from the Pays d'Oc, from a fresh Chardonnay and perfumed Viognier to a delicate rosé and a supple Pinot Noir.
Fresh, balanced and superb value, the La Chevalière wines bring Laroche's precision to the south of France. They are pure, fruit driven and easy to love. Everyday drinking done well.






