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| Drinking window: Drink between 2014 and 2016 (based on 11 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 85 pts. and median of 85 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by acyso on 3/17/2024 & rated 85 points: Heater week; 3/8/2024-3/17/2024 (Chicago, IL): From magnum. Pretty good as far as viognier goes, but 100% viognier can only get you so far. Peachy and sweet, and oddly brown and advanced in colour. None of the sickly qualities on the palate that low-acid wines can have, but it's still not the sort of white wine I care to drink. (662 views) | | | Tasted by grapenomad on 12/19/2022 & rated 84 points: Tasted blind with the theme being "wines you've wanted to drink, but haven't had chance yet". Deep golden in the glass. What I get from the nose right away is age, almost like an oxidative character. The fruit is fully developed, showing very ripe and dried stone fruit, baked yellow apple, dried flowers, preserved lemon. Palate has this weird salty character which is totally out of sync with the fruit, leaning to a vin jaune kind of vibe but without the acidity. I feel the warmth of the alcohol as well, especially on the finish. Interesting wine, but barely holding on at this stage. (465 views) | | | Tasted by Lord of the Bottles on 2/26/2011 & rated 86 points: Pungent, green apple aroma and taste. Some mineral on the finish, limestone, more green fruit. Good but a bit too young still. Tasted at Uncorked 2009 Rhone en Primeur. (1636 views) |
| ViognierViogner is wrong wine
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Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMESCondrieuThe single vineyards of Condrieu on weinlagen.info |
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