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Rhône 2024 – Crozes-Hermitage, St-Joseph and other northern reds
Alistair Cooper MW
Thursday 27 November 2025
• 13 min read
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Rhône 2024 – Cornas, Côte Rôtie and red Hermitage
Alistair Cooper MW
Wednesday 26 November 2025
• 12 min read
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An early peek at the 2022 vintage in these northern Rhône Syrah heartlands, including a taste of Guigal's La Reynarde...
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Vines and growers are learning to cope with the heat, turning out good wines despite high temperatures and low rainfall...
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Overall, a good vintage for whites in the northern Rhône, particularly in Hermitage. Above, our intrepid reporter on his morning...
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Ali's final report on this variable vintage is a complement to his reviews of Hermitage, Côte Rôtie and Cornas 2021s...
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The vintage really left its mark on the three key red wines. Above, vines cling to the hill of Hermitage...
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Now an overview of this complicated vintage in the north. We'll eventually have provided 900+ tasting notes – essential guidance...
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Good news at last! Above, image of Condrieu's vines courtesy of Inter Rhône. See this guide to our extensive coverage...
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A delicious and well-priced anomaly.
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In James's picture, taken in Guigal's extensive and tenebrous cellars beneath Ampuis, is Philippe Guigal, who made two of the...
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James continues his tasting tour of the northern Rhône's Syrah heartlands… The river viewed from St-Joseph vineyards is pictured here...
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We move northwards with this first of three reports on the 2020 vintage in the northern Rhône Valley together with...
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Some of the world's finest wines, from estates owned by François Pinault, reviewed – at last.
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See also this guide to our coverage of Rhône 2019 .
Both St-Joseph and Cornas show real quality in 2019...
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After last week's wallow in the southern Rhône, we head north – to find it not that much cooler. See...
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See also this guide to our coverage of Rhône 2019. Above Jean-Paul Jamet gives Ali a cartographical tour of Côte...
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Richard recommends a northern Rhône Syrah that delivers great bang for your buck.
2018: from €29, 36 Swiss francs, £127...
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