The Rhone Valley stretches almost 500 miles from North to South and is home to some of France's oldest vine plantings that were first cultivated in Roman Times. The region is split into Northern and Southern Rhone, both of which are very contrasting regions. From the North, the appellations of Hermitage and Cote Rotie produce some of the most famous and rare wines from Syrah, harvested from the very steep slopes carved into the hillsides. It is also here that the world's best Viognier is produced from the Condrieu appellation.
Heading to the warmer South and a sizeable 13 grape...
When compared to the wines offered from France's other leading winemaking areas, the wines of the Rhone Valley are comparatively cheap. As well as offering plenty of diversity from North to South, the area therefore produces some of the best value wines in the world. This, coupled with an incredible run of excellent vintages over the past 10 years, makes the Rhone Valley one of the most exciting and attractive wine producing regions in the world.
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On the nose, great variety of spice, bark and red fruit flavors, in particular berries and morello cherry stones. There is also a light hint of eucalyptus. Altogether plump and structured by well constituted tannins with a lot of persistence which guarantees potential for ageing.
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This wine is an interesting and very well made blend of Grenache blanc, Bourboulenc, Clairette, Picardan, Marsanne, Roussanne, Picpoul blanc & Picpoul gris. A wine which is all at once complex, elegant, fresh and rich. The layers of flavour you find in the glass are enticing from ripe peach and nectarine, to lemon peel, honey and ginger. A wine lover's...
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Heady aromas of dark berries, cherry pit, lavender and anise, with a bright mineral quality that gains power with air. On the palate, focused, impressively concentrated black raspberry and bitter cherry flavors. Fine-grained tannins give the persistent finish shape and grip but they play second fiddle to this wine's sexy fruit and floral qualities.
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£172.20
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Imagining the sweetness and purity of diverse berry fruits found in the corresponding “L’Esquerda” bottling allied to the saline savor of the corresponding “Vignes de Bila-Haut” will give you an idea of what awaits from the glass of 2011 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem …there is, unsurprisingly, at least as much sheer complexity on display here...
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£117.58
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This wine is an interesting and very well made blend of Grenache blanc, Bourboulenc, Clairette, Picardan, Marsanne, Roussanne, Picpoul blanc & Picpoul gris. A wine which is all at once complex, elegant, fresh and rich. The layers of flavour you find in the glass are enticing from ripe peach and nectarine, to lemon peel, honey and ginger. A wine lover's...
moreBottle 75cl £35.60 £25.70
