Rest of France – autumn collection
Wednesday 18 December 2013
See this guide to all our autumn collections.
And so we bid farewell to our long series of 19 regional collections of tasting notes with a sweep-up of all the French wines that did not fit into our articles about Bordeaux, Burgundy, Rhône, Loire, Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon & Provence, fizz and strong/sweet wines.
This means that the nearly 50 wines come substantially from Jura & Savoie and South West France. See how well Jura scores below. You may like to see my previous impressions of Jura.
Wines are presented by region (the...
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