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Rhône 2020 En Primeur: full vintage report and top-scoring wines
Expert verdict plus the top-scoring bottles...
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St-Joseph 2020: report and top-scoring wines
Matt Walls discovers great value and early-drinking capacity for the 2020s...
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Cornas & St-Péray 2020: report and top-scoring wines
2020 marks a return to a more focused, classic style...
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Walls: My top 10 Rhône wines of 2021
Sometimes atypicity, combined with charisma and personality, is what makes a wine stand out..
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Hermitage 2020: report and top-scoring wines
Impressive balance, precision and structure across both red and white Hermitage in 2020...
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Northern Rhône 2020: full report and top-scoring wines
Fresh but slightly less ageworthy wines. Look out for both reds and whites...
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Côte-Rôtie & Condrieu 2020: report and top-scoring wines
Drink these fairly young and save the 2019s for long-term ageing...
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Walls: Tasting Hermitage 2001 20 years on
Twenty years is a long time to wait, so is it worth it?
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Walls’ hidden gems: Clos de la Bonnette, Condrieu
Matt Walls questions whether we could be witnessing the birth of a great estate...
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Cornas to drink now: Matt Walls’ top 20
20 top recommendations
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Coming Soon: Decanter Wine Experiences
Exclusive wine travel trips with Decanter
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Walls: 10 exciting estates to know in Cornas
Matt Walls selects 10 estates to know in Cornas which showcase ageworthy, powerful Syrah.
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Domaine Clape: Cornas vertical tasting from 2017 – 1987
The rare chance to taste 13 Cornas bottlings...
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Walls: Brune and blonde soils in Côte-Rôtie – do they really make all the difference?
Looking at the two different soil types and how they influence wine style, longevity and quality...
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Best French wines: 100 point scores
Top-scoring wines from Champagne to the Rhône...
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Aged Condrieu – how it develops plus 40 wines tasted
Matt Walls dissects the theory that Condrieu doesn't age and should only be drunk young by tasting 40 wines with half from the 2019 vintage and half an older vintage of a producer's choosing.
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Walls: Top-quality and great-value Côte-Rôtie alternatives
With the complex and aromatic wines of Côte-Rôtie in high demand, and prices climbing out of reach, Matt Walls identifies a number of Côte-Rôtie alternatives from both the Rhône and further afield which deliver on style, complexity and price.
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Walls: The magic of mature Gigondas
Matt Walls examines seven mature vintages of Gigondas wines and reports on what is drinking well now and what should be kept cellared for a little while longer.
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Matt Walls’ hidden gems: Domaine Burgaud, Côte-Rôtie
Matt Walls shines the light on this under-the-radar producer, Domaine Burgaud.
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Walls: Tasting the first five vintages of Delas’ Hermitage ‘Ligne de Crête’
Matt Walls take an in-depth look at Delas Frères' new single-vineyard cuvée Ligne de Crête and tastes the first five vintages from 2015 to 2019 finding 'few Hermitage wines quite as gentle and elegant'.
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Matt Walls: My two years in Provence writing Wines of the Rhône
Matt Walls looks back on his two year research project for his latest book Wines of the Rhone, and the trials and tribulations of moving his family to France...
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Matt Walls: Tasting Jaboulet La Chapelle from 1991 to 2019
In his first column of 2021, our Rhône correspondent Matt Walls tastes eight different La Chapelle vintages from between 1991 and 2019 and reports on the variability and evolution of one of the Rhone Valley’s most iconic wines.
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Rhône 2019: Top 25 white wines
There are some superb wines in this Top 25
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Rhône 2019: Best-value wines under £20/$25
There's value to be found in 2019 if you know where to look
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Côte-Rôtie 2019: Report and top scoring wines
Matt Walls found the overall quality of Côte-Rôtie 2019 wines to be very high, and where the alcohols were in check, there are plenty of deliciously deep and unctuous wines to choose from.
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Cornas 2019: Report and top scoring wines
The 2019 vintage has produced many atypical Cornas wines finds Matt Walls although the more moderate and balanced wines are delicious.
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New Côtes du Rhône Villages appellation granted – Nyons
After more than twenty years, and from a pool of over 90 communes that produce wine under the Côtes du Rhône-Villages AOC, Nyons has been promoted and awarded the 22nd Côtes du Rhône named village.
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‘Remarkable’ Cornas winemaker Alain Voge dies
Tributes have been paid to Alain Voge, a pioneering winemaker in the Northern Rhône's Cornas and St-Péray appellations
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Northern Rhône 2018 report: The top scorers
Matt Walls reports on the wines of the Northern Rhône in 2018, including the likes of Côte-Rôtie, Cornas, Saint-Joseph, Hermitage and Condrieu...
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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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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.
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Rhône wines: Find Your Rhône
Value for money in the Rhône can be found – if you know where to look. Our expert tasters plot a map, as they select their favourite reds between £5 and £15.
