St-Joseph 2024: The best wines brimming with peppery spice
An early-drinking vintage with fragrance and delicacy...
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.
An early-drinking vintage with fragrance and delicacy...
Tough times for this appellation, with a few glimmers of hope...
Look out for the whites...
A few names rose to the top this year...
Challenges in Rhône's northern extremities...
An outlier vintage, with mixed results...
Syrahs hitting their stride...
Stellar nothern stars...
Transparent wines with a sense of place...
A selection of top wines from this globe-trotting grape...
Surprising balance from an extreme year...
A taste of what's to come...
Groundbreaking Franco-Australian Shiraz blend launches...
The most memorable bottles revealed...
Crozes-Hermitage gets back on track...
Whites have the edge once more...
A welcome return to wines of finesse...
Approach on a wine by wine basis...
Best of the far north...
A troublesome climate leads to varied success...