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Rest of Southern Rhône 2009

Thursday 18 November 2010
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See our Guide to 2009 Rhône coverage, not least for its list of UK merchants making offers of these wines.

Yesterday we published so many tasting notes on red Châteauneufs that we overloaded our system and it initially refused to show any wines that followed alphabetically Tour St-Michel's Feminessence. Fortunately an alert Purple pager pointed this out to us so we were able to fix this, but it does highlight just how many tasting notes we are currently publishing on the unusually warm, dry 2009 vintage in the Rhône Valley.

 

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