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Northern Rhone
The Rhone Valley is kept in check by a sweeping Mistral wind that is tunnelled from the north of Rhone to the open and flatter southern Rhone. The Rhone river runs through the valley dividing the schist and granite soils.

The Northern Rhone is a difficult place to grow grapes, the slopes are steep to work and costly. Most of the wines grown are premium styles and its production is tiny when compared to Southern Rhone. Syrah hits new heights here in the form of spicy delights.

Red or White? Mainly red with a small amount of white made. And there is a blend where red and white is co-fermented together in Cote Rotie. Syrah with a splash of viognier - a rarity!
 
Grapes
White: Viognier, Marsanne, Roussanne
Red: Syrah

Styles
This is spicy syrah land - black olives, smoked meats, cooking spices and heady florals are common tasting descriptors. And the tannins can be firm and fine in youth, becoming slender with age. The whites are richer and fleshy, viognier is the queen of hedonism.

Favourite Producers
Guigal, Coursodon, Pierre Gonon, JL Chave, Bernard Faurie, Balthazar, Stephane Ogier

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Southern Rhone
Grenache reigns supreme in the south, although it is commonly blended with Mourvedre and syrah.   Planted throughout the region, Grenache loves the warmth and sunny exposition made available to it in southern Rhone. Look out for the galette pebbles found in Chateauneuf du Pape - these heat up during the day and the extra warmth overnight continues to ripen the grapes on the old bush vines.

From rosé to affordable weekday pizza wines (Cotes du Rhone blends) through to ageable beauties like Chateauneuf du Pape, Grenache is a chameleon of grapes centred around vibrant red fruits and slippery tannins.

Red or white? Red and a little rose. There's also a small amount of a fortified white called Muscat de Beaume de Venise

Grapes
White: Muscat a Petits Grains
Red: Grenache, Mourvedre, Syrah

Styles
Cotes du Rhone are the cheerful wines you want to reach for mid-week. Their fleshy and fruit nature make them deliciously enjoyable and they won't burn a hole in your pocket. The pinnacle of Grenache is reached in Chateauneuf du Pape wines. These have built-in structure and can age gracefully for many years. Look out for Village or Cru wines such as  Vinsobres, Vaquerays, Gigondas as these are a happy medium between the bookend styles.

Favourite Producers
Font du Courtedune, Rayas, Beaucastel, Chateau de Fonsalette, Marcoux, Mont Redon

 

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  1. Coursodon St Joseph Silice Blanc 2019
    Coursodon St Joseph Silice Blanc 2019
    Translucent yellow. Vibrant, mineral-accented citrus and orchard fruit aromas are complemented by suggestions of fennel and jasmine. Juicy and focused on the palate, offering concentrated pear, tangerine and anise flavors that pick up a nervy mineral flourish with air. Densely packed yet lively in style, delivering strong closing thrust and lingering floral and bitter pear skin notes. All stainless steel. JOSH RAYNOLDS, Vinous
    2019
    Marsanne
    France
    467
    $82.00 As low as $73.80
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  8. Ogier Le Temps Est Venu Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2022
    Ogier Le Temps Est Venu Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2022
    Always a lovely wine and the 2022 has an extra level of freshness and crunchy snap. A blend of grenache blanc, roussanne and a good dollop of viognier. Stone fruits, some quartz mineral notes that thread through the mid palate and sprinkle white pepper to finish. Some slippery textural elements provide length and its cut nicely by a streak crunch acid.
    2022
    Marsanne, Roussane
    France
    467
    Special Price $27.00 Regular Price $34.00
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  9. Cuilleron Le Lombard Marsanne 2020
    Cuilleron Le Lombard Marsanne 2020

    100% Marsanne oldest vines 1967, most mid-late 1980s, from sanded granite soils
    shiny yellow; the bouquet carries a grapey air, smokiness, white tobacco, lemon peel, has a little Riesling petrol tone within. The palate gives a fluid run of crushed white fruits, compote style, hints of vanilla, holding well into a stylish close. It's articulate St Jo blanc, on a trail of refinement, reserve. It deserves a fine table, carries interest, is worth studying. It can develop its second half a little more. 13.5° (4 stars) JOHN LIVINGSTONE LEARMONTH


     

    2020
    Marsanne
    France
    467
    $88.00 As low as $79.20
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  10. Ogier Condrieu La Combe de Malleval 2021
    Ogier Condrieu La Combe de Malleval 2021
    The 2021 Condrieu La Combe De Malleval is on another level and brings incredible purity, precision, and class. White peach, white flowers, and some honeyed minerality all define the nose, and it's medium to full-bodied, has a vibrant, clean, fresher mouthfeel, and a great finish. In comparison to the Vieilles Vignes, this always brings slightly more flesh and richness. (95) JEB DUNNUCK

    Gorgeously fresh peach and blanched almond on the nose and palate, with a touch of lemon verbena. Full-bodied but not fat, with great energy. The alcohol is low, and there's good acidity, no overt oaking, good line and length. The perfect balance, and very classic, I'd drink this young. All in Stockinger demi-muids, 50% new; you don't notice the new oak, it works extremely well. Just 12.5% ABV. (95) DECANTER

    A supple and elegant Condrieu with lemons, herbs and plenty of white flowers and fresh pears. Medium body with fresh acidity. It's well-balanced with freshness at the center and a delicious core of fruits and flowers towards the salivating finish. JAMES SUCKLING

    It's pretty hard to go past this. I see this as the kind of wine that Stephane loves. Overall there is a sense of buoyancy to the fruit. It's playful and tantalises with hints of the exotic, little wafts of galangal and wild ginger flower mingle with pomme fruits. Thirst slacking and highly energetic with a wonderful flourish of fruit and a mineral twang that only serves to further enliven the palate. It does broaden out on the finish, adding some flesh and punch before fading away. It's bloody lovely. ROSCOE
    2021
    France
    467
    $145.00 As low as $130.50
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  11. Ogier Condrieu Les Vieilles Vignes de Jacques Vernay 2019
    Ogier Condrieu Les Vieilles Vignes de Jacques Vernay 2019
    A beauty, offering a more fruit-forward, sexy, supple style as well as textbook peach, white flowers, and honeysuckle aromas and flavors. Textured and balanced, with a great finish, it's ideal for drinking over the coming 4-6 years. JEB DUNNUCK

    The vintage plays an inevitable role here, it is a gorgeous rendition of this wine, the white that accompanies Stephanes revered reds, and has the track record to back it up, as well as the mountains of press. This is the current release to Australia and the few years in the bottle have drawn out more of those robust, ripe and rich stone fruit notes. It's still essentially a pup but you see some move towards expansion on the palate and more nuance now on the nose. More clearly defined aromatics that offer up hedonistic and sweetly perfumed fruit, wild flowers, nectarine and a glass full of mixed citrus juice (only way I can think of describing that character). It leans in to sensuality in the mouth, there it caresses as it easily fills your palate with its delectable fruit salad like array of flavours. It is easy to miss the force behind it, almost, it really hits the finish hard with a burst of rocky minerality and an emphatic punch of intensity that leaves your palate feeling stained. For me this is where I would like to drink this wine. While both youthful enthusiasm and some richer elements are at play. There is no doubt in my mind that most fans of Condrieu will ignore that and throw this in the cellar for a decade. Don't get me wrong, the wine will be super then too. I just love the power that 19 brings with the vigour and liveliness of Stephane's style and I find this part of its life to be particularly enjoyable. It's a tremendous effort. ROSCOE  
    2019
    Viognier
    France
    467
    $225.00 As low as $202.50
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  17. Beaucastel Coudoulet Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2021
    Beaucastel Coudoulet Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2021
    The 2021 Côtes Du Rhône Coudoulet Blanc comes from two terroirs, one just across the A7 autoroute and one slightly further north. It has terrific aromatics of pear, crushed citrus, and white peach to go with a tight, medium-bodied, almost reductive (in a good way) style on the palate. It's not yet bottled, but this will certainly be an outstanding wine and will easily stand up beside a Châteauneuf du Pape Blanc. JEB DUNNUCK
    2021
    Rhone Blend
    France
    467
    $95.00 As low as $85.50
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  20. Coursodon Vin de France Etincelle Blanc 2022
    Coursodon Vin de France Etincelle Blanc 2022
    A viognier dominant wine supported by Marsanne from a high altitude vineyard at the to of Mauves on the border of the appellation. This medium-bodied white Rhone is a delight, because it is brimming with fresh stone fruit aromas. …the balance of ripeness and spring-like freshness is spot on. A cuvee of roussanne and viognier grown on granite soils at high altitude. Vinified only in stainless steel. Drink now. STUART PIGGOT
    2022
    Roussane, Viognier
    France
    467
    Special Price $57.00 Regular Price $65.00 As low as $50.00
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  21. Coursodon St Joseph Blanc 'Le Paradis Saint Pierre' 2022
    Coursodon St Joseph Blanc 'Le Paradis Saint Pierre' 2022
    90% Marsanne and 10% Roussanne from 50-80 year old vines from Paradis and Saint-Joseph granite sites raised in 10% new oak.
    The 2022 Saint Joseph Le Paradis Saint Pierre Blanc is even better, and it's up with the finest Saint Joseph Blancs I've ever had. Quince, honeyed minerality, toasted spice, and green almond-like nuances all define the nose, and its more Hermitage Blanc than Saint Joseph Blanc with its medium to full-bodied richness, gorgeous overall balance, and incredible length. It has some background oak and will benefit from a year or two of bottle age, but I suspect it will have over a decade of prime drinking. Don't miss this beauty. (97) JEB DUNNUCK
    2022
    Marsanne
    France
    467
    Special Price $135.00 Regular Price $160.00 As low as $125.00
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  23. Mas des Bressades Costieres de Nimes Tradition Blanc 2022
    Mas des Bressades Costieres de Nimes Tradition Blanc 2022
    Roussanne takes the lead on the sultry white Rhone, while grenache blanc, viognier and marsanne are the backup singers. It offers a pretty burst of honeysuckle, nectarines and confit citrus. The palate glides and reaches pleasingly across the palate with just the right amount of presence, curtailed by a lilting line of acidity. To finish grapefruit phenolics add a pleasing bitter punctuation. It's heavenly, like being wrapped in cashmere (without the hefty price tag). GABRIELLE POY
    2022
    France
    467
    $33.00 As low as $29.70
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  27. l'Oratoire Saint Martin Cairanne Reserve des Seigneurs Blanc 2022
    l'Oratoire Saint Martin Cairanne Reserve des Seigneurs Blanc 2022
    “Shiny yellow; the bouquet has capacity, can emerge with interest, shows an aroma of crushed white fruits, peach and a little pear. The palate attacks with a rounded wave of citrus-tinged white fruits, holds its shape, has the gras to accompany sauced dishes, Munster, Brie de Meaux, Isle of Mull cheese. It seems to carry Roussanne, Gren blanc fat at its heart [tasted blind]. 13.5°.”
    JOHN LIVINGSTONE-LEARNMONTH, Drink Rhône
    2022
    Rhone Blend
    France
    467
    Special Price $46.00 Regular Price $55.00
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  28. Domaine La Florane Visan Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2022
    Domaine La Florane Visan Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2022
    Grenache Blanc with Marsanne, Roussanne, Burboulenc, Clairette and Viognier.  Wild fermented and raised in concrete vats, aged briefly on fine lees.
     
    Aromatics and flavours of apricot, peach and honeysuckle, with grapefruit/citrus fruit, rind and pith.  There's a real zip to this release, great energy humming here.  The stony mineral and cleansing acidity give a pleasing textural edge and palate definition.  It's clichéd to be going 'best release yet', but this cuvée is on song here.
    2012
    Marsanne, Roussane
    France
    467
    Special Price $33.00 Regular Price $39.00
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