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You may not be surprised to read that I am in favour of the spirit of co-operation. (See, for example, A giant step for JR.com .) It was therefore a great pleasure to meet the Rhône Gang... |
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From £4.24 and 950 yen. For Bastille Day, a French wine of course. Those who have followed my raves about Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2007 and the southern Rhône generally in this obligingly... |
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The Rhône is currently such a great source of good quality, interesting wine – some of it at extremely good prices – that we are publishing yet more tasting notes, another 115 of them, to... |
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From €5.80, £56 a dozen in bond and $15. Find this wine Those who have been visiting this site regularly for the last few months will know how enthusiastic I am about 2007... |
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See this guide to 2007 Rhône tasting notes on this site. Halfway through my concentrated look at about 300 Châteauneuf 2007s in the village itself at the end of November, I was having a... |
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On this site there are several different collections of tasting notes on the 2007 vintage in the Rhône Valley. Here they are in the order they were published, most recent first: ... |
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See this guide to 2007 Rhône tasting notes on this site. These 23 tasting notes are additional to our notes already published on 100 Northern Rhône 2007s and 300 Southern... |
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Above is how Mont Ventoux looks at the moment from Chateauneuf, in a photograph taken by Michel Blanc of the Federation of vignerons. See this guide to... |
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From €7.50, $20 and £8.49 Find global stockists of this wine Forgive another Rhône but I am somewhat obsessed by this gloriously appealing region at the moment. See... |
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See this guide to 2007 Rhône tasting notes on this site. Here is the first lot of Rhône 2007 tasting notes, on the northern half of the valley. Much more background and... |
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From €6.95 and £6.99. Find this wine After tasting so many great 2007 Rhônes recently (see yesterday's report on last week’s tastings in eastern France),... |
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I’m now back home after a week’s immersion in 2007s in Burgundy and then Châteauneuf-du-Pape with hundreds of tasting notes – a very high proportion of them favourable. Needless... |
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I tasted these 50 red Rhône wines back in May for British Airways business class. There is nothing sinister in the long delay between tasting and publishing – just a build-up of so many... |
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Just a few quick observations between tastings - many of them of a range of 2007 Rhônes. The north seems very much more varied than the south, with an almost mind-boggling array of... |
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Here's what the Jaboulet team we saw here yesterday talking about the exceptionally wet 2008 vintage have to say about 2007 in the northen Rhône, and about what might happen to prices.... |
















