Welcome to the wine info page for CLUB shipment #1: the RHÔNE river — now open to the public! the RHÔNE riverThe Rhône is most famous for wind-buffeted, single-stake syrah clinging to the steep slopes of a valley carved through a granite plateau — or for magisterial, sun-soaked red blends from the soupstone-strewn vines surroundingContinue reading “THE CLUB #1 – the RHÔNE river”
Tag Archives: Cornas
Map Print: the Rhône river
A map of the Rhône from its source in the Alps to its end in the Mediterranean, very much not to scale.
Atlas Entry: Northern Rhône
A regional profile of the Northern Rhône
Class Recap: “Syrah & Their Cousins”
The first session of Feb-March’s Grape Study season.
Rebels in Classic Wine Regions, Vol. 2
Class was on Saturday, January 23. These were the wines: How you might see it on a listDirty & Rowdy, “Skin and Concrete Egg Fermented Sémillon”, Yountville, Napa Valley, California Who made it? Hardy Wallace & teamOut of what? Head-trained, dry-farmed sémillon purchased from a 2.4 hectare block planted on alluvial gravels in 1962 in Yount Mill,Continue reading “Rebels in Classic Wine Regions, Vol. 2”
Children's Atlas of Wine 