Rhône Valley Rhône Valley No longer undiscovered gems of French wine, the top vineyards of the Rhône are producing increasingly widely distributed wines of world class. The established and increasing number of Rhône super-cuvées are now some of the most exciting as well as expensive wines in the world. However, there remains a vast sea of simple, sometimes disappointingly poor wine at the bottom end of the market. Two-thirds of all wine made throughout the Rhône Valley is generic AC Côtes du Rhône, although the region is improving fast and smart and slick generic marketing is being allied to generally higher quality standards. It is worth seeking out the ever-increasing number of young growers, mainly in the south, who are endeavouring to produce wines of quality and style at still very fair prices, rather than selling to the co-ops or large négociants. Northern Rhône The northern and southern parts of the valley are very different geographically. The Northern Rhône stretches south down the narrow valley of the River Rhône, from Vienne in the north to Valence in the south. The vineyards of Côte-Rôtie are on steep, precipitous terraces and provide some of the world’s most challenging viticultural conditions. The name Côte-Rôtie means ‘roasted slope’. This may be the most northerly of the Rhône appellations, but the vineyards have a superb aspect facing south-east and the soils are ideal for viticulture – high in minerals, relatively infertile and very well drained.

There are only some 200 ha under vine, with a number of cru sections identified. The best quality wine comes from the centre of the appellation. Côte Brune to the north of Ampuis produces wines of fuller body, the Côte Blonde to the south lighter more elegant wines often with Viognier blended in, which is permitted here. The style of Côte-Rôtie is perhaps less overtly muscular than the wines of Hermitage and Cornas and its climate can be very marginal in achieving full ripeness. In great years, when everything comes together at vintage these wines at their best are quite sublime. Immediately south of Côte-Rôtie, the vineyards of Condrieu continue on the western bank of the

1 Rhône Valley France river. They are planted on granite and sandstone rather than on the schistous soils to the north. The slope becomes less precipitous and the conditions are more suitable for that uniquely perfumed, aromatic variety Viognier. Widely planted now further afield, from the Languedoc to California, the variety has only come into vogue in the last decade or so. While the weight and aromatic power of the wines can be almost overwhelming, Viognier is a difficult variety to grow and Condrieu lacks the structure of other great French whites. The majority are best drunk in their first two or three years. An increasing number are now barrel-fermented on lees with bâtonnage and a few more are produced as late-harvest and very occasionally botrytisaffected wines. The best of these can be stunning. The most extensive appellation in the north is Saint-Joseph. It encompasses the southern part of Condrieu and runs right down the western bank of the river to the borders of Cornas, just to the north of Valence. The reds are produced from Syrah, while the whites are a blend of Marsanne and Roussanne. The best wines are produced from the gravel-based soils close to the river. An impressive number of very good wines, both red and white, have been made in recent years and prices are rising. The best sites have real potential. The great hill of Hermitage and its wines, dark, brooding and powerful, are perhaps the quintessential expression of classic northern Rhône reds. There are many fewer producers here than at Côte-Rôtie and a mere 131 ha of vineyards. The hill is split up into seven different crus or lieux-dits with varying soil types. One grower, Jean-Louis Chave, is able to draw on all seven in blending his reds. The Syrah is joined by whites based on Marsanne with some Roussanne. These can be remarkably long lived, often more so than the reds. New oak and destemming in the cellar are playing an increasing role and the whites often see barrel-fermentation. More often than not here though, the oak is used rather than new. Red Hermitage should be cellared, as it is slow- developing. The white, too, needs years to show at its best. It can be approachable for a couple of years and then mysteriously close up, so if you plan to drink it young, do so within a year or two or else you will be very disappointed. Surrounding the hill of Hermitage are the vineyards of Crozes-Hermitage. The same grapes are used but the vineyard area is much larger and encompasses some 1,238 ha of vines. The better wines are made on isolated outcrops of granite and there can be a wide variation in quality. The best are very good and generally well-priced and there are an increasing number of relatively highly priced special cuvées. To the south and on the west bank of the river opposite Valence, are the appellations of Cornas, which borders southern Saint-Joseph, and immediately to its south Saint-Péray. Cornas is dense and muscular Syrah. It shares more in common with Hermitage than Côte-Rôtie, which is not surprising given its near proximity. A wide range of styles are produced, from the modern oak- influenced wines of Jean-Luc Colombo to the fiercely traditional style of Auguste and Pierre-Marie Clape. At their finest, these are dark-fruited, intense and splendidly long-lived expressions of Syrah. Many of the Cornas growers also produce the still and sparkling wines of Saint-Péray; the still having greater potential on the whole. They are blended from Marsanne and Roussanne, like their white counterparts to the north. A further sparkling wine comes from a little further south-east under the Clairette de Die AC, which produces lighter semi-sweet sparkling Muscats. Crémant de Die is now the AC for dry sparklers from Clairette. At best they are crisp and fresh. There also some dry white still wines produced under the Châtillon-en-Diois appellation, from cool-planted Chardonnay and Aligoté in the same area.

2 France 3 Rhône Valley . This is a sizeable is a sizeable This . Châteauneuf-du-Pape The Ventoux looking across from vineyards at Château Pesquié Château at vineyards looking from across Ventoux The whether the quality of the regular bottlings suffers as a consequence. The best red Châteauneuf is red Châteauneuf The best as a consequence. whether the quality bottlings suffers of the regular a decade for improve best will easily continue to The and very exotic almost ageworthy. rich, heady, serious structured wines some more floral and nutty are and there can be good, white The or more. In should be drunk young. general the whites role. a limited with oak playing as well, varied with clay, gravel and stone all playing a role. The larger galets roulés, the famous round stones stones the famous round galets roulés, larger The a role. all playing and stone gravel varied with clay, the found throughout not universally the vines at night are up heat and reflect it onto that store supply. be the key moisture to consider the clay component in controlling appellation and many making are special limitedproduction number of growers an increasing trends Among current very is some question as to While some of these are there splendid wines, old vines. from cuvées and Mourvèdre are also very important in lending structure and grip. The Châteauneuf soils are soils are Châteauneuf The and Mourvèdre also very are important in lending structure and grip. can on occasion help in ripening fruit close to vendange and keeping cellars free of humidity. free and keeping cellars vendange help in ripening fruit close to can on occasion most importantThe in the south is quality region very Quality in recent has soared good vintages and vineyards. appellation with some 3,084 ha of variety main Châteauneuf The wine. bottling their own now are number of growers an increasing Syrah a number of them white. blend, 13 permitted varietiesthe red in are but there is Grenache, the whole region is some 75,000 ha and nearly 42,000 ha of that Côtes du Rhône. The climate is climate The du Rhône. Côtes 75,000 ha and nearly is some ha of that 42,000 the whole region can be a significant There variety. is the mainstay in the south and Grenache warmer altogether While it Alps. the out of down which blows cold the wind, Mistral from region on the influence in the north,has some influence not only physical in the south, with cause devastation it can same MistralThe shut down. causing them to of the vines, stressing but vineyards damage to While the north meanders down a narrow river valley, giving it its unique viticultural it its unique viticultural giving valley, the north river While a narrow meanders down with planted and is extensively area, a much greater the southern Rhône covers environment, in the north for planted the total area under 2,700 ha, whereas is just vineyard total The vines.

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number of IGP, now known now as IGP ( number of IGP, and Coteaux de Pierrevert Coteaux is a floral, grapey fortifiedgrapey is a floral, Muscat. in found to lack the quality It is not lateharvested tends and some impressive red and white is produced. Two important wines southern offering vins de pays Two is produced. and white red some impressive the Coteaux du Trica du the Coteaux of the the vineyards are only, Lirac for both rosé and, of greater importance from a quality point of view, some very importance a quality good of greater from point of view, and, both rosé Lirac for only, in high can often be excessively rosé The in the limestone-richGrenache-based planted reds soils. alcohol and dull. the north du of the Côtes To other appellations. extremities four of the Rhône the outer are Towards the of the River Rhône, are and east respectively west Rhône-Villages sector, the Muscatof the Roussillon. wines de Rivesaltes This marked that can develop cask age. with Grenache rancio notes from produced vin doux naturel being some of the best modern are southern where not be confused with Rasteau, should reds AC made. the appellations of are of Châteauneuf-du-Pape the west To ageworthy wines being produced. Some of the better Rhône-Villages Some of the better ageworthy also have domaines may wines being produced. label younger-vine chose to or may outside the appellation boundaries, vineyards Rhône. appellations. their own which have specialities, also two regional are There Venise these express vibrant and complex dark fruit and subtle herbal notes. Those wines produced from from wines produced Those vibrant and complex dark fruit and subtle herbalthese express notes. Outside these 16 villages there remarkably value and old vines can be both excellent impressive. du Rhône-Villages. straight Côtes A number of thousand hectares of vines producing several are very both this appellation and the humble good wines under also some very are emphasise their forward fruit, but there serious to and tend latter The produced. Vinsobres du Rhône-Villages names after 17 villages which can append their the Côtes now name. are There Among these are It success. though, is the southern villages, with greater the Syrah is planted unsurprisingly, where, their best number of stylish At wines. the greatest and particularly producing which are Cairanne, from the the from a are There In the northern Rhône the important one is the of domaines and reds of some substance are being produced. Immediately south again, on the being produced. of some substance are of domaines and reds the is , of borders emerging also are and whites the Alpes some good reds the far east towards To stylish as well. whites also value for money. Like Gigondas, Grenache is the most important variety in Vacqueyras, which is the most importantVacqueyras, Like Grenache Gigondas, variety money. in also value for Gigondas and an increasing than generally lighter wines are The in 1990. AC its own was awarded best The some varietal even wines being produced. are There being used. is now amount of Syrah of ripe combination dark an intoxicating berryhave fruit and a marked garrigues character. further villages To the north and west of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the ancient Roman town of Orange are the of Orange are the north Roman and the ancient town of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and west To du Rhône-Villages Côtes that the small range de Montmirail, on the slopes of the Dentelles planted are of Gigondas vineyards lack to They tend brooding. and massive dense, wines are The Vaucluse. the hills of the into merges qualityexcellent only but not but they can offer very Châteauneufs, of the the refinement greatest France 5

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Ch. Mont-Redon Ch. Rayas Ch. Simian Clos du Caillou Clos du Mont Olivet Clos des Papes Jean Clos Saint Dom. Amadieu Dom. Brusset de Cairanne Cave Saint-Martin L’Oratoire Dom. Rabasse-Charavin RichaudMarcel Chateauneuf-du-Pape Autard Dom. Paul Barrot Dom. Lucien Dom. de Beaurenard Dom. Berthet-Rayne Bois de Boursan Henri Bonneau Bosquets des Papes Dom. de La Charbonnière CharvinGérard Ch. de Beaucastel Ch. Beauchene Ch. Fortia Ch. La Gardine Ch. La Nerthe Southern Rhone Beaumes-de-Venise Dom. de Cassan Dom. Durban Cairanne Daniel & Denis Alary Costières de Nîmes Costières .

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. Dom. Gripa Bernard Dom. Paret Alain Marc Sorrel Marc l’Hermitage Tain de Cave Saint-Péray Tunnel Dom. du Saint-Joseph Dom. de Champal Dom. Courbis Coursodon Pierre Gaillard Pierre Gonon Dom. Pierre Dom. des Remizières Gilles Robin Hermitage Albert Belle M. Chapoutier Chave Jean-Louis Chave Yann Dom. Delas Frères Faurie Bernard Jaboulet Ainé Paul Dom. Jasmin Dom. Michel Ogier Perret Dom. André René Rostaing Vienne de Vins Le Hermitage Crozes Dom. Combier Dom. des Entrefaux Graillot Alain Dom. du Murinais Pochon Etienne Dom. Jamet IGP du and further south the

based reds are being produced by a number of good domaines and increasing use is being made of increasing number of good domaines and a by being produced are based reds Mourvèdre. of these properties Many making also are rich, stylish and blends of CabernetSauvignon labelled as Syrah, generally Just to the west of the River Rhône is the emerging region of the region of the River Rhône the west Just to is the emerging the blends of the southern in common with Rhônesurprisingly has more than the the wine here strawberry-scented, Intense, Grenache- here. is covered this reason and for of the Languedoc rest largely based on Grenache (but also Cabernet Sauvignon in the case of the former) are the are the former) in the case of Cabernet (but also Sauvignon on Grenache based largely d’Orange Principauté Clusel Roch Dom. Duclaux Jean-Michel Gerin Guigal E. Dom. Bonnefond Dom. de Bonserine Burgaud Bernard Ch. d’Ampuis Dom. du Chêne E & J Durand Dom. de Fauterie Paris Vincent Voge Alain Cote-Rotie Gilles Barge Thierry Allemand Dom. Balthazar Clape Auguste Colombo Jean-Luc Dom. de Coulet Dom. du Monteillet Dom. Niero Pinchon Vernay Dom. Georges Villard François Cornas Dom. Louis Chèze Dom. Louis Cuilleron Yves Dumazet Pierre Faury Philippe Gangloff Yves Dom. Northern Rhone Grillet Chateau Ch. Grillet Condrieu A-Z of producers by appellation/commune appellation/commune by of producers A-Z France 6

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Dom. Coste-Chaude Dom. La Guintrandy Other Selections Lesec Patrick Tardieu-Laurent Dom. de La Mordorée Vacqueyras Dom. des Amouriers Tours Ch. des Clos de Caveau Clos des Cazaux Dom. des Espiers Dom. La Garrigue Couroulu Dom. Le Dom. de La Monardière Dom. de Montvac Dom. Montirius Toumba Dom. Roucas Sang des Cailloux Valréas Bellane Clos Petite Vinsobres Dom. Chaume-Arnaud Dom. de Deurre Rasteau Elodie Balme Dom. Beau Mistral Dom. Bressy-Masson Travers des Dom. Coteaux Dom. des Escaravailles Gourt de Mautens Dom. La Soumade Trapadis Dom. du Sablet Dom. du Piaugier Séguret Dom. de Cabasse Dom. de Mourchon Tavel Dom. Amido Dom. Lafond-Roc-Epine Dom. Maby

Cotes du Rhone-Villages Cotes Cros de la Mûre Cros Dom. de L’Enclos Dom. de L’Espigouette des Estezargues Cave Dom. de Gramenon Dom. La Manarine Mas de Libian Dom. Perrin Dom. de Renjarde Dom. Roche-Audran Dom. Sainte-Anne Ch. de Fonsalette Ch. de Fontségune Lirac Ch. Saint-Roch Dom. Gour de Chaule d’Or Dom. Grapillon Dom. La Bouissière GoubertsDom. Les Pallières Les Moulin de La Gardette Dom. Raspail-Ay Dom. Saint-Damien Dom. Duc Santa Tourade Dom. de La Dom. Le Bérane Dom. Le Ch. Pesquié Valcombe Ch. de Dom. de Fondrèche de Barroux Saint-Jean Vindemio Dom. Gigondas Dom. du Cayron Ch. Redortier Ch. Saint-Cosme Dom. de Font-Sane Ch. Saint-Esteve d’ Ch. Saint-Esteve Dom. Fond-Croze Aphillanthes Dom. Les Bois Grands Dom. Les Dom. Réméjeanne Dom. Rouge Garance Viret Dom. Ventoux

Dom. de La Citadelle Joanis Val Ch. du Rhone Cotes Dom. Calendal Dom. des Perrières Domaines Renouard de Pierrevert Coteaux Dom. La Blaque Luberon Ch. Beaubois Ch. du Campuget Ch. Mas Neuf de Grès Ch. Mourgues et de Gueules Ch. d’Or Pierre Usseglio Pierre Raymond Usseglio Vieille-Julienne Dom. de La Télégraph Vieux Dom. du Villeneuve Dom. de Nimes de Costieres Dom. de Pegaü Dom. des Relagnes Dom. Jean Royer Roger Sabon Dom. de La Solitude Dom. de Marcoux Mas de Boislauzon Dom. Mathieu Dom. de Montpertuis Dom. de Panisse Vignobles Mayard Vignobles Dom. la Millière Dom. La Roquette Donjon Vieux Le Cailloux Les Dom. Grand Veneur Dom. Grand Dom. Giraud Dom. de La Janasse Dom. Olivier Hillaire Dom. La Barroche Dom Cristia de Vatican du Cuvée Feraud-Brunel de Michelle Font Dom. de Grand-Tinel France 7 12 11 Nyons Rhône Valley -Eygues ape Vinsobres 6 2 3 4 alréas V 5 Sablet Visan Saint-Maurice-sur Cairanne Châteauneuf-du-P vignon A 7 1 Orange Bollène 9 RHÔNE 8 Arles RHÔNE Cèze RHÔNE 2 GARD Bagnols-sur- Northern Rhone 1 Côte-Rôtie 2 Ch. Grillet 3 Condrieu 4 Saint-Joseph 5 Crozes-Hermitage 6 Hermitage 7 Cornas 8 Saint-Péray du Rhône 9 Côtes 10 ARDÈCHE Nîmes ISÈRE lence 5 Va in l’Hermitage Vienne 6 Ta 7 9 8 ournon T 1 2 RHÔNE 4 3 Ampuis Grignan-les-Adhémar 3 4 & Condrieu 10 Costières de Nimes 10 Costières Ventoux 11 12 Luberon 5 Vacqueyras 5 6 Beaumes-de-Venise 7 Châteauneuf-du-Pape 8 Lirac Tavel 9 Southern Rhone 1 du Rhône/Villages 2 Côtes 3 Rasteau 4 Gigondas France 8 Rhône Valley wines have performedwines have in a rly and with very ripe wines as a result of a hot August. There was though a was though There rlyvery and with of a hot August. ripe a result wines as : A much easier year for growers in both the north and south of the region. The best reds look best reds The in both the north and south of the region. growers for : A much easier year : This has turned out to be a very good vintage in both the northern and southern areas. The has turnedThe be a very This to out good vintage in both the northern : and southern areas. : Once again the whole of the Rhône Valley was blessed with excellent growing and ripening growing was blessed with excellent Valley : Once again the whole of the Rhône : This was a decent, if not great year in the north with temperamental growing weather season weather in the north year growing was a decent, if not great with temperamental This : : There were trying conditions in both the north were growing and the south. InThere the north rain in early: : This was a great year in both the north and south of the region. The northThe a very had in both the north year hot late region. was a great and south of the This : : A very good year indeed following on from 2009. The wines are not just marked not just wines are an The by 2009. on from : A very following indeed good year : Another fine year throughout the region. There was a very was a There and the vintage early budbreak region. the year throughout : Another fine rom 2004 throughout the Rhône Valley there have been some very successful vintages in both been some very vintages successful have there Valley Rhône the 2004 throughout rom look like they will be at least as good as in 2004. 2004 Likely ripened well tannins. to and in the main like good depth with deep colours and form they have 2001 in the north to be of a similar level and 1999 in the south. phenolic ripeness as well as a healthy yield. yield. phenolic ripeness as a healthy as well 2005 harvest and unlike was cooler and the wines will have was low the sapping heat of 2003 the weather The acidity also look likely levels to tannins. refined more better good natural acidities and in the reds Reds conditions. in the drought been feared than might have balanced whites better fresher provide vintage. They are likely to reach full maturity likely reach They are to somewhat earlier. vintage. 2006 further that plagued a number of other regions north problems absent here. The were conditions. was just sufficient rain in early to nourish cool and there September was relatively late The that they excellent achieved delighted In were both the norththe vineyards. and the south growers many quality concious growers. qualitymany concious growers. 2007 who harvested the cycle conditions at harvestbut a good end to those growers with sunny and for with good concentration. In elegant and intense the south it was yet as possible the wines are as late the previous than those from opulent and approachable more year and the wines are another fine fresh and ageworthy fresh than the 2007s. 2008 Those harvest late by dryinga Mistral.and the sunshine from followed was September crop the of out in their selection In vinatges good wine. careful made some the south the run of excellent who were made by were acidity and good elegant reds excellent the best wines have However an end. came to intensity in the fruit benefitted, particularlyintensity in the fruit benefitted, in the south. 2009 for the vines sufficient nourishment provided winter the cold wet However rainfall. summer with low resulted In the south the warmresulted. summer wines have well balanced sustain them and fine to structured, The wines will perhaps be more than normalbut quality yields in slightly lower is very fine. produced after an even ripening period. The reds are supple and opulent without the nervy supple and opulent are reds The character after ripening an even period. produced very intensity. are too whites good with great The of the 2010s. 2010 and a freshness but also by the region throughout and whites concentration in reds impressive flavour reduced crop was nervy influenced yields and while the Issues during have flowering acidity. will keep very well, 10 even 20 years in the best examples. The lesser wines from recent years will years recent lesser wines from The in the best examples. 20 years 10 even will keep very well, or more. years five last comfortably for 2011 been ea might have and the harvest summer long late tannins being balanced balmy than expected with well later was F the north the lesser Rhône-Villages and south. Over period, the same appellations wines in top top The Châteauneuf-du-Pape. those at to manner similarly impressive Rhône Valley vintages Valley Rhône France 9 . The The . h some very Rhône Valley eat. Potentially good eat. Potentially with the exception of the magnificent 1991 Côte- 1991 of the magnificent with the exception : Very opulent reds were made in 1989. 1988 was a classic year for northern 1985 for made in 1989. 1988 was a classic year reds. were Very opulent reds : : This was a good to very was a good to This in the northernThere good year Rhône: and in Côte-Rôtie in particular. their full achieve time to will need more These Hermitage. long-lived great : A superb for year : Generally the best year since 1990 for reds reds for since 1990 : Generally the best year : The northern appellations fared well, producing very good results. The wines are generally generally wines are The very northernThe producing good results. well, appellations fared : : A very the north, opulent and heady wines being throughout good year with well-structured, : A generally very good year, particularly and some very levels : A generally very in the south with good crop rich, year, good : After the previous four bountiful vintages this was a disappointment. There was veryThere heavy rain vintages this was a disappointment. bountiful four the previous : After the hitting the heights of 1999 for if not quite very was This valley, the good throughout : : The super warm summer of resulted in some good wines from this vintage in the north. The The in the north. this vintage from in some good wines super warmThe resulted summer of : both north and south are still drinking well. 1978 was a truly great year in the north,both north year still drinking a truly great wit and south are 1978 was well. very also. Other fine Châteauneuf for the north 1971, 1970, 1969, 1966, 1964 good earlieryears were and 1961. potential. Côte-Rôtie Cornas and Côte-Rôtie the superb both drinking match 91s. potential. did not quite are at Châteauneuf-du-Pape. wines produced some of the excellent as are now, well Years Earlier Hermitage. was good in both the north long-lived some excellent and the south. 1983 produced good 1979s from in 1981 is worth A few veryChâteauneuf-du-Pape considering from producers. top been drunk except for the best white Hermitage. the best white for been drunk except 1991 markedwas quite south was disappointing and The variation particularly in Cornas and Hermitage. been drunk. have now the wines should by 1990 sizeable and and masculine in structure. They have been veryThey have good cellaring prospects but without and and masculine in structure. sizeable They were Inthe opulence or elegance of 1999. the south the vintage was spectacularly good. cellaring good prospects. but the best remain youth in their relative excellent 1995 have They should and will be surprisingly short-lived. somewhat less impressive were Whites Rôties. south was good to verysouth was good to good but lacked the sheer quality of 1998 and 2000. 1998 1999 and dry with a balmy excellent summer and were Conditions in all the major appellations. produced surprisingly but should be long-lived wines are forwardThe and approachable rainfall. adequate examples, a smaller than normal yield helping to ensure this. White HermitageWhite is very ageworthy. this. a smaller than normal ensure helping to yield examples, 2000 very Not quite ripe, best are The approachable. full and and complex wines being made. profound the same quality in the north, Côte-Rôtie but good and very was produced. ageworthy wines were the most successful among the reds. 2002 In the south quality. real any achieve to in the north and selectivity extreme care requiring growers by at optimum maturity wines are top The now. with heavy flooding. of woe it was a similar tale 2001 northern and cellarworthy Nevertheless the south. impressive appellations or 2000 for are these 2003 key had harnessed was who difficult f tannins best, a the ripening of their grape very wines are in the south, some was the though and achieving alcoholic with Grenache balance key. France 10

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