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: Southern Rhône
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”
One Grape 3 Ways: Cinsault
One of those red grapes that sloshed around the western Mediterranean for a few hundred years and always seems to end up in blends, cinsault isn’t an obvious candidate for a class all to itself. It wasn’t until I’d had enough single-variety expressions of the grape that I really loved that I started to getContinue reading “One Grape 3 Ways: Cinsault”
Children's Atlas of Wine 