The Southern Rhône Valley is a goldmine for wine lovers. It is a stunningly beautiful region, the wines are easy to like and although often of excellent quality they are very reasonably priced. We ...

Vintners Jean Orens Ferraton and his son Michel have known winemaker extraordinaire Michel Chapoutier for more than two decades. In the mid-1990s, they brought organic farming to Rhone Valley ...

Steep vineyards in Crozes-Hermitage in France's Northern Rhone Valley where white wine grapes are grown in challenging conditions. The vineyards of the Rhône Valley represent the second-largest wine ...

Grape growing and wine production in the northern and southern Rhone Valley is a tale of two worlds. Although the greater Rhone region shares the commonality of the Rhone River, north and south are ...

Another 20 French producers traveled from the Rhône Valley itself. Maison Guigal and Château de Beaucastel lent familiar and famous names to the festival, and a trio of winemaking friends—Pierre ...

French wine can be many things. But it is rarely simultaneously all of these things: ultra-premium, progressively farmed, modern, rooted thousands of years in the past and affordable and delicious ...

We contend that wines from the Cotes du Rhone — especially the reds — offer consumers some of the best bang for the buck for their hard-earned dollars. Cotes du Rhone is an appellation covering the ...

Last week we wrote about the wines of the northern Rhone Valley. Today, we write about the very different wines of the southern Rhone. While the northern Rhone consists of dramatic steep hillsides, ...

Most people who think of southern Rhone Valley think first of Chateauneuf du Pape, but we think first of the eight other crus that represent better values. Don’t get us wrong. We have collected ...

For those who have a passion for wines from the Rhône Valley, here’s a summary of the 2023 harvest from Inter Rhône, the organization that represents the Rhône Valley Vineyards AOCs. Inter Rhône is a ...

Inter Rhône, the organization that represents the Rhône Valley Vineyards AOCs, back in late November issued an assessment of the 2023 vintage, calling it a success. The vintage showed “great balance ...