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Northern Rhône
The northern Rhône is home to the likes of Hermitage, Côte-Rôtie, Cornas and Condrieu.
Hermitage famously allows producers to blend up to 20% Viognier with Syrah, producing some of the world’s most sought-after wines.
Condrieu is a temple to Viognier grown on steep hillsides, where the warmth of the summer is countered by the cooling mistral winds to produce rich, ripe white wines.
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Syrah and Shiraz Grapes – Climatic, Winery Influence, Most important regions – WSET Level 2
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Game of TRhône Quiz: How well do you know the Côtes du Rhône?
Last night the Decanter team attended the Côtes du Rhône Wines annual quiz. Do you think you can answer the notoriously difficult Côtes du Rhône section?
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Hopes rise for the Rhone 2015 vintage
The Rhone 2015 vintage has been one of the region's earliest starts to a wine harvest, beginning on 27 August, but optimism has been building among winemakers and grape growers.
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Cornas 'legend' Noël Verset dies at the age of 95
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40,000 Euros of grapes stolen from Maison Etienne Guigal
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Cutting-edge northern Rhône
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St Joseph 2010: panel tasting results
Decanter experts gives their verdict, tasting notes and drinking windows on St Joseph 2010.
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First taste: Rhone wines - Matt Walls picks six to try
Regional body InterRhone, which is the professional body that promotes AOC Rhone wines, recently held its annual seminar and tasting in London. Here are my top six wines from those present.
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The New World of the northern Rhône
A crucible of experimentation, Crozes-Hermitage is home to a band of young producers with New World attitudes. Matt Walls introduces some of the names you should know, and finds a growing adoption of natural and biodynamic methods
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Northern Rhône 2012
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Decanter panel tasting (Sept 2012): Crozes-Hermitage 2010 - All wines
The expert verdict: you still have to choose carefully with Crozes-Hermitage, but the basic standard is rising and this is a very good vintage that wine lovers can buy with confidence.
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Rhône 2010 in 'top three vintages of last 40 years' says Decanter
Rhône 2010 is one of the finest vintages for 40 years, Decanter’s expert John Livingstone-Learmonth says in the latest issue of the magazine.
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Vintage report: Northern Rhone 2009
An excellent crop of generous and ageworthy reds and rich whites
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Which French wine region produces St-Joseph?
The northern Rhone is home to this Syrah-producing appellation. It also produces some whites from Marsanne, and a little Roussanne.
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Hermitage may lose famous signs as part of environmental bill
The advertising signs that adorn the famous Hermitage slope may be removed as part of a new environmental heritage bill proposed by French authorities.
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Latour's Engerer buys in the Rhone
Chateau Latour director Frederic Engerer has invested in his own wine property in the Rhone Valley.
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Christie's sets new record - for a case of Hermitage
Christies London has set a new European auction record for a case of wine - 12 bottles of Hermitage La Chapelle 1961 which sold for a record-breaking £123,750 - over £10,000 a bottle.
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St-Joseph & Crozes: Two villages in Northern Rhône in Focus
Keeping up with the neighbours. John Livingstone-Learmonth visits two of the best value villages in the Northern Rhône...
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M²: Pomerol meets Hermitage
Two of France’s most celebrated winemakers have created a wine from two of its most prestigious appellations.
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Northern Rhone
As in the rest of France, 2003 was one of the hottest ever experienced in Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and St-Joseph. James Lawther MW finds out if the wines suffered.
