Red wine accounts for 95% of the production in Northern Rhone and syrah is the most widely grown grape. The region also produces white wines that can be outstanding from mostly marsanne, roussanne ...

Its wine route, established in 1953, is one of the oldest in France, running 170km north to south while winding through 70 villages. Fall welcomes harvest festivals overflowing with wine, food ...

The resulting wines are robust, mineral and firmly structured, and of a similar quality to Hermitage. Wine to try: 2021 Domaine Clape, Cornas. This is an edited extract from Halliday Wine Academy's ...

A two-part look at the Rhone Valley: Part two, the north.The Rhone is the second largest wine-producing region of France (after the Languedoc, its neighbor to the west). Eighty percent of its wine ...

The northern Rhone is known for excellent syrahs, often sold for jaw-dropping prices. But dig around in the Saint Joseph appellation and you can find some affordable gems, such as this one.

When I first fell in love with wine, I fell in love with the Rhône Valley. My guide was “Adventures on the Wine Route” by Kermit Lynch, a Berkeley, Calif., importer whose memoir made driving ...

With the Rhone Rangers, who joined in 1998, Hospice becomes the pre-eminent celebration of Rhone varietal wines in the country. 2005: In a single decade, plantings of Syrah balloon from less than ...

On the face of it, the Northern Rhone valley looks like a place where only crazy people would try to cultivate vines and make wine. The hills are impossibly steep, with a stony soil that makes ...

Corks at a wine tasting of St.-Joseph in New York, July 29, 2015. In the best of the wines from the appellation in the Rhone region of France, tasters found beauty and distinctiveness that makes ...

One of the best, the Coudoulet de Beaucastel, may go as high as $25. </p> <p>The best wine of the northern Rhone is Hermitage, a deep, powerful, long-lived red wine made entirely from syrah.