{"title":"Rhône Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rhône Valley divides into two distinct halves. In the steep northern hills, Syrah makes peppery, perfumed reds in Côte-Rôtie, Crozes-Hermitage and Saint-Joseph, while Viognier gives heady Condrieu. In the warmer, wider south, Grenache-led blends from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas and Côtes du Rhône are generous, spicy and warming, scented with garrigue herbs. Rhône reds offer some of France's best value and suit slow-cooked stews, game and barbecued meats.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"2023-condrieu-coteau-de-vernon-domaine-georges-vernay","title":"Condrieu, Coteau de Vernon, Domaine Georges Vernay 2023","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeaches and dried apricot, with ginger, jasmine and a hint of liquorice, and oak that complements rather than covers. Delicate yet opulent, full in weight but cut by racy acidity, elegantly structured and long. Viognier 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorges Vernay is known as the King of Condrieu and was responsible for the small appellation's recovery in the 1950s; his daughter Christine has looked after the winemaking since 1997, and in 2019 the domaine was awarded three stars by La Revue du Vin de France. Coteau de Vernon is 2.5 hectares of south to south-east facing granite and biotite terraces in the heart of Condrieu, vines of 50 to 70 years on 110 Richter rootstocks, planted at 8,000 to 10,000 per hectare and yielding just 25 hectolitres; the terraces are too steep for machines, so the vineyard is maintained by hand, without weed killers or insecticides, and is certified organic. The fruit was picked at full maturity, meticulously sorted and pressed immediately, the clear juice fermented in 225-litre barrels over four to five weeks, then matured twelve months on its fine lees in oak barrels, 25% of them new, with regular bâtonnage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10 to 12°C. It goes with lobster, roast chicken with cream and morels, pork belly with apricot and a washed-rind cheese. 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Syrah 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorges Vernay, known as the King of Condrieu, led the growth and worldwide recognition of that small appellation in the 1950s; the estate now covers 22 hectares, six of them in Côte-Rôtie. His daughter Christine has run the winemaking since 1997, and in 2019 the domaine was awarded three stars by La Revue du Vin de France. Maison Rouge takes its name from a small red house at the foot of this steep lieu-dit: two hectares of sandy granite terraces in the south of the appellation, Guyot-trained vines averaging 50 years and planted at 10,000 per hectare, worked by hand without weed killers and certified organic. The grapes were destemmed and fermented in oak vats for three to four weeks, then matured for 24 months in oak barrels, 30% of them new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C, decanted an hour ahead. Roast lamb with rosemary, venison, duck with olives or a mature hard cheese. Approachable now with air, at its best from around 2027 and built to develop for fifteen years or more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Georges Vernay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55718663651711,"sku":"HNW-4620722A","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/hnw-46207-cote-rotie-maison-rouge-domaine-georges-vernay.jpg?v=1790230760"},{"product_id":"2021-cornas-domaine-de-saint-pierre-paul-jaboulet-aine","title":"Cornas, Domaine de Saint Pierre, Paul Jaboulet Aîné 2021","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFull-bodied yet elegant, with raspberry, Morello cherry and a subtle smokiness over a beautifully balanced structure. Fully destemmed, three weeks' maceration with daily pump-overs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCornas means 'scorched earth' in Celtic, a clue to the exposure. Jaboulet was founded in 1834 and farms seven northern Rhône appellations; the Frey family bought it in 2006, with Caroline Frey now making the wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood with red meat, game and cheese. Built for the long term — decades, if kept well. Serve at 16–18°C to highlight its structure and aromatic precision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Jaboulet Aîné","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56045686063487,"sku":"HNW-5965021A","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/2021_Cornas_DomainedeSaintPierre_PaulJabouletAi_ne_1af45ece-6895-4bd7-89e6-ce67a0f935d0.png?v=1757625722"},{"product_id":"2021-cornas-les-eygats-domaine-courbis","title":"Cornas, Les Eygats, Domaine Courbis 2021","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpulent and complex, this Cornas reveals black fruits, liquorice, and wild herbs, complemented by fresh mineral and graphite notes through a long, textured finish. Concentrated aromas of black cherry, blackberry, liquorice, wild thyme, and crushed stone, underlined by graphite and a hint of oak spice. Rich and opulent, with layers of dark fruits, liquorice, and smoky mineral notes. Vinified in stainless steel at 30–32°C for 12–15 days before malolactic fermentation and ageing 18 months in 50% French oak barrels (35% new) and 50% vats. The result is a Cornas of depth and structure, balanced by freshness and fine-grained tannins. Contains sulphites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDomaine Courbis traces its origins to the 16th century and has been passed down through generations since the early 1900s. Today, it is led by brothers Laurent and Dominique Courbis, who oversee 41 hectares of vineyards across Cornas and Saint-Joseph. Laurent crafts the wines, while Dominique manages the steep granite vineyards. Their combination of traditional viticulture and modern winemaking yields wines of purity and polish, earning international acclaim for their balance of power and finesse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood with lamb and pasta. Built for the long term — decades, if kept well. Serve at 16–18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Courbis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56045686161791,"sku":"HNW-4615821A","price":53.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/2021_Cornas_LesEygats_DomaineCourbis_f19dba66-bb9b-4366-81d6-4aa954ac107d.png?v=1757625727"},{"product_id":"2023-crozes-hermitage-saint-cosme","title":"Crozes-Hermitage, Saint Cosme 2023","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmoky bacon and blackberry lead, with white pepper and a thread of incense behind them. The palate is rich and intense but stays medium in weight, with fine-grained tannins and fresh acidity carrying a long finish. Syrah 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Saint Cosme lies in the southern Rhône appellation of Gigondas and has been in the Barruol family for over 500 years; Louis Barruol, the fourteenth generation, took over from his father in 1992 and has since built a négociant range alongside the estate, working in small batches alongside growers across the valley. This cuvée is a nod to the historic heart of Crozes-Hermitage, drawn from hillside vineyards at Larnage, Erôme and Gervans, and made entirely from Sérine, an ancient, small-berried, low-yielding heirloom Syrah native to the region that Barruol credits for the smoky character of northern Rhône wines and that thrives on the appellation's granite. The fruit was fully destemmed and fermented with indigenous yeasts, then matured for twelve months in French oak casks, 20% of them new, and bottled without filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16°C. Good with roast lamb, peppered steak, duck with olives, or a mature hard sheep's cheese. Drink over the next three to five years, and give it an hour in a decanter. 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The Frey family bought the house in 2006 and Caroline Frey now makes the wines, alongside a nine-hectare wildlife reserve and a wider programme of ecosystem work; the vineyards have been certified AB organic since 2016 and cultivated biodynamically, with a regenerative approach, since 2021. This cuvée comes from estate parcels in the Conflans sector, on the left bank of the Rhône at 140 metres, a seven-hectare plot planted between 1956 and 1974 at 5,000 vines per hectare in mostly north-south rows. Its name comes from the mules that worked those high-density rows, being finer and more agile than a horse. The fruit was hand-harvested and sorted by plot, then gently whole-bunch pressed; after settling it fermented in concrete eggs and French oak barrels, 5% of them new, and was aged on its fine lees in the same vessels. In 2022 budburst was late but growth accelerated and flowering came in May under high temperatures, making it one of the three earliest vintages of the last twenty years; a stormy start to summer and beneficial mid-August rain left the wines with real concentration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with roast chicken, pork belly, scallops in butter, or a creamy vegetable gratin. Drink now and over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. 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Grenache 80%, Mourvèdre 20%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour generations of the Saurel family have farmed this estate at La Baumette, a hamlet just outside the village of Gigondas, since 1821; the name Saint Damien, the early Christian saint honoured by the chapel there, entered the name of the domaine in 1979, and Romain Saurel joined his father in 2013. The vines grow on limestone and clay with glacial deposits, worked under lutte raisonnée since 1996 and certified organic since 2012. Fermentation was long and slow, six weeks in concrete vats, and the wine then spent twelve months in oak foudres before being bottled without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. It handles slow-cooked lamb shoulder, beef daube, merguez off the barbecue or a mature sheep's cheese. Drinking well now and over the next three to five years; an hour in a decanter opens out the fruit. 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Syrah 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Rouanne is a historic estate in Vinsobres, the northernmost cru of the southern Rhône and one elevated to cru status only in 2006; it was bought in 2019 by Louis Barruol of Château de Saint Cosme, who is restoring the château and replanting its vineyard. The estate runs to 62 contiguous hectares of red clay, limestone marl and sand around the building, planted between 1955 and 1975 to a massal selection of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, and 'Les Côtes' is the block at the highest point of the hillside, facing south-east into the rising sun on Pliocene and Messinian clay-marl; the Alps begin five miles away and the Pontias wind carries cold air down over the vines. The fruit is organically farmed and hand harvested, fermented whole-cluster in concrete tanks with wild yeast, then aged twelve months in Burgundy casks and demi-muids of which 15% were new, 50% second passage and 35% third, and bottled without fining or filtration. 2021 was a cold, late year across France, but Vinsobres sat above the spring frost on its hillsides and gave a balanced, elegant wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. It handles roast lamb with rosemary, a rare ribeye, duck breast with black cherry, and an aged hard sheep's cheese. Drinking well now and through to about 2031; give it an hour in a decanter to let the graphite edge open. 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Grenache 80%, Mourvèdre 20%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour generations of the Saurel family have farmed this estate at La Baumette, just outside the village of Gigondas, since 1821; the name Saint Damien entered the name of the domaine in 1979, and Romain Saurel joined his father in 2013. Les Souteyrades is a named lieu-dit in the south of the appellation, on limestone and clay terraces, planted with Grenache dating from 1948 and Mourvèdre from 1977; the vineyard is certified organic, farmed without chemical pesticides or herbicides. The grapes fermented for six weeks with indigenous yeasts in concrete vats, after which the wine spent twelve months in oak barrels and was bottled unfined with only a gentle filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. It suits slow-braised beef cheek, venison stew, a rib of beef or a wedge of aged Comté. At its best over the next five to ten years, and worth an hour in a decanter while young. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Saint-Damien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476486885759,"sku":"HNW-4650922A","price":32.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/4650922A.jpg?v=1789922431"},{"product_id":"2024-chateauneuf-du-pape-les-vallons-de-la-solitude-domaine-de-la-solitude","title":"Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Les Vallons de la Solitude, Domaine de la Solitude 2024","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLayers of black-berried fruit and bramble, a touch of the local wild garrigue herbs and gentle spice. Smooth and flavoursome rather than heavy, with velvety tannins, moderate acidity and a long, sumptuous finish. Grenache 60%, Syrah 25%, Mourvèdre 15%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWine has been made on this estate for several hundred years, since the Lançon family arrived from Italy in 1264 to serve the pope in Avignon; the three hats on the label stand for two bishops and a pope among their forebears. The 38-hectare domaine is run today by Florent Lançon, whose vines run from the high terraces of La Crau down into the Solitude valley across sandy safres, clay and pebble, strewn with the rounded quartzite galets roulés that hold the day's heat and release it overnight. The fruit is hand-picked variety by variety at phenological ripeness, sorted, destemmed and moved by gravity into concrete tanks, where it fermented with wild yeasts and macerated gently for velvety tannins; a tenth of the wine then spent 15 months in first-use French oak, the rest staying in concrete to keep the fruit pure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. Good with roast lamb and rosemary, duck breast, pork belly with herbs, or a plate of hard cheeses. Drinking well now and over the next three to five years; give it an hour in a decanter. 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Graeme is from New Zealand and Julie a native of the northern Rhône; they met working at Domaine Ogier in Côte-Rôtie, then found that the garden of their first house sat on the Condrieu hillside of Vérin, and built a ten-hectare domaine from there across Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph and the little-known Seyssuel, working now from their own cellar beneath La Mouline. This wine comes from plots at Chavanay, Talencieux and Saint-Pierre de Bœuf in the northern part of the appellation, on steep granite at 250–300 metres where the day-to-night temperature swing keeps natural freshness; the twenty-year-old vines are planted at 8,000 per hectare, trained by the traditional échalas stake method, and hand-harvested parcel by parcel. The fruit was vinified 30% whole bunch and 70% destemmed, cold-soaked in stainless steel, then fermented with wild yeasts over roughly three weeks between 24 and 28°C and aged for fifteen months in seasoned 225-litre French oak barrels. The 2023 season was warm and balanced with a fine late autumn, and September conditions let picking run to early October with the fruit in impeccable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16–17°C. Good with rare roast lamb, a slow beef daube, grilled ribeye or a board of charcuterie. Drink over the next three to five years, and give it an hour in a decanter. 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Graeme is from New Zealand and Julie a native of the northern Rhône; they met working at Domaine Ogier in Côte-Rôtie, then found that the garden of their first house sat on the Condrieu hillside of Vérin, and built a ten-hectare domaine from there across Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph and the little-known Seyssuel, working now from their own cellar beneath La Mouline. The white comes from plots at Chavanay and Saint-Pierre de Bœuf in the northern part of the appellation, on steep granite at 250–300 metres where the day-to-night temperature swing keeps natural freshness; the vines are ten to twenty years old, planted at 8,000 per hectare, trained by the traditional échalas stake method and hand-harvested parcel by parcel. The grapes were whole-bunch pressed for a pure, aromatic juice, cold-settled and racked clear, then fermented at 15–16°C in old French oak barrels of 225, 350, 400 and 500 litres with neutral selected yeasts, and aged nine months on its lees without bâtonnage to keep the style clean and mineral. 2024 had an excellent sun-to-rain ratio and the vines never came under stress; picking ran from around 8th September into early October, and the cooler season gave notable freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with grilled sea bass, crab, roast chicken with herbs, or a goat's cheese salad. Drink now and over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a DIAM technical cork. 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Grenache 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Rouanne is a historic estate in Vinsobres in the Rhône Valley, bought in 2019 by Louis Barruol of Château de Saint Cosme, who is restoring the château and reviving its vineyard. Its 62 contiguous hectares of red clay, limestone marl and sand were planted between 1955 and 1975 to a massal selection of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre, and the lieu-dit of Rouanne et Les Crottes — a Gallo-Roman site marked on the 17th-century Cassini maps — sits on a gently rolling clay slope with a south-eastern aspect, where the clay holds just enough water, the crop ripens steadily rather than fast, and rot is unknown. The grapes were fermented whole-cluster in concrete tanks with wild yeast, aged twelve months in a mix of Burgundy casks and demi-muids of which 15% were new, 50% second passage and 35% third, and bottled without fining or filtration. 2021 was a cold, late year, but Vinsobres escaped the spring frost on its hillsides, and the wine has the balance and ethereal elegance of a cool vintage rather than the lightness the year is usually credited with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. Good with slow-roast shoulder of lamb, herb-roasted chicken, pork belly with fennel, or a mature Comté. Drinking now and through to about 2031; half an hour in a decanter is enough. 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Clairette 30%, Grenache Blanc 30%, Roussanne 25%, Bourboulenc 15%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWine has been made on this estate for several hundred years, since the Lançon family arrived from Italy in 1264 to serve the pope in Avignon; the three hats on the label stand for two bishops and a pope among their forebears, and the 38-hectare domaine is run today by Florent Lançon. This white is an historical cuvée, made since the seventeenth century from Grenache Blanc on the Crau plateau and Clairette, Roussanne, Bourboulenc and Picpoul from the Vallon de la Solitude, on ground strewn with rounded quartzite stones that hold the day's heat. Picking is by hand in the early morning into 25-kilogram crates, with the bunches sorted before a short skin maceration and pressing; the Roussanne and Grenache Blanc were fermented and aged in French oak and the Roussanne taken through malolactic conversion, while the Clairette, Bourboulenc and Picpoul were co-fermented in vat. Ageing on fine lees ran for ten months, 35% in barrel, 30% in foudre, 30% in concrete and 5% in new oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10-12°C, in a decent-sized glass rather than a small one. It works with roast chicken, turbot or monkfish in a butter sauce, pork with apple, and creamy gratins. Drinking well now and over the next five to ten years, and a half-hour in a decanter suits it while young. 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The Frey family bought the house in 2006 and Caroline Frey now makes the wines, alongside a nine-hectare wildlife reserve and a wider programme of ecosystem work; the vineyards have been certified AB organic since 2016 and cultivated biodynamically, with a regenerative approach, since 2021. Domaine de Roure sits in the commune of Gervans, north of Tain l'Hermitage, 1.4 hectares in a valley that the estate has turned into a biodiversity refuge. The vines were planted between 1945 and 2000 on slopes of 10–25% gradient at 220 metres, yield 30–40 hl\/ha, and are mostly trained by Cordon de Royat with some staked gobelet; the fruit is picked by hand, sorted by plot and carried to the winery in 12kg crates. It was whole-bunch pressed and, after settling, fermented in a combination of concrete eggs and demi-muids, then aged on its fine lees in the same vessels. 2021 was a challenging year: an early spring was checked by black frost from 7th to 9th April, with temperatures down to −6°C, and a wet, cool summer delayed ripening, but careful vineyard work produced aromatic, well-balanced wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 11–13°C. Good with roast guinea fowl, veal in cream, grilled turbot or a well-aged Comté. Drink now and over the next five to ten years; half an hour in a decanter will open it out. 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Grenache 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Saint Cosme sits in Gigondas in the southern Rhône and has been in the Barruol family for over 500 years; Louis Barruol took the estate on from his father in 1992 and is known among the region's winemakers as the 'Genius of Gigondas'. The property lies at the crosspoint of two geological faults, and Le Claux — old French for clos, from the Latin for 'closed' — is a 1.8-hectare parcel enclosed by a cliff, recorded in the first vineyard land registry of 1902 and already old by then, planted after phylloxera somewhere between 1870 and 1880; it was due to be pulled out in 1914 and survived only because the men had gone to war, and Louis' grandmother, having lost two brothers, kept it afterwards. Its Miocene clay and limestone marl on the Font des Papes alluvial fan, with sharp gravel at the surface, make the estate's most Burgundian Gigondas. Whole clusters were fermented with wild yeasts and minimal intervention, then aged twelve months in French oak casks of which 20% were new, 50% second passage and 30% third or fourth, and the wine was bottled unfiltered and certified organic. In 2022 a long heat wave and drought slowed the vines' growth and ripening, and the reds came in balanced, with good fruit and fine tannins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. It suits roast lamb, venison, duck with cherries, slow-braised beef cheeks and a washed-rind cheese. Drinking from now to around 2032; decant an hour ahead. 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Grenache 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Saint Cosme sits in Gigondas in the southern Rhône and has been in the Barruol family for over 500 years; Louis Barruol took over from his father in 1992 and is known among the region's winemakers as the 'Genius of Gigondas', bottling individual old-vine plots separately to show what the terroir can do. Le Poste is the historic vineyard wrapped around the Saint Cosme chapel, four terraces of Tortonian limestone marl with three planted to Grenache and one to Clairette; the site is documented from 1443, when it was in the hands of Orange royalty, and passed to the Barruol ancestor Esprit Vaton in 1490, while Gallo-Roman vines were probably growing less than a hundred metres from today's vats in the first century. Louis' father Henri replanted the terraces in 1963. The cuvée was fermented with wild yeasts and minimal intervention, then aged twelve months in French oak casks of which 20% were new, 50% second passage and 30% third; the wine is certified organic. In 2022 a long heat wave and drought slowed growth and ripening, and the reds came in balanced, with good fruit and fine tannins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. Try it with barbecued lamb, grilled ribeye, oxtail, game birds or a hard mountain cheese. Drinking from now to around 2032; give it an hour and a half in a decanter. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saint Cosme","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476518146431,"sku":"HNW-5966322A","price":89.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5966322A.jpg?v=1789922553"},{"product_id":"2023-condrieu-domaine-graeme-julie-bott","title":"Condrieu, Domaine Graeme \u0026 Julie Bott 2023","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid aromas of white peach, honeysuckle and apricot, with a touch of white grapefruit behind them. This is the taut, energetic end of Condrieu rather than the opulent one: medium in weight, dry, with high acidity and a real sense of tension carrying a very pure finish. Viognier 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomaine Graeme \u0026amp; Julie Bott is one of the northern Rhône's newer names, and one of its most promising. Graeme is from New Zealand and Julie a native of the northern Rhône; they met working at Domaine Ogier in Côte-Rôtie, then found that the garden of their first house sat on the Condrieu hillside of Vérin, and built a ten-hectare domaine from there across Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph and the little-known Seyssuel, working now from their own cellar beneath La Mouline. This wine blends several plots: the lieux-dits of Côte-Chatillon and La Caille, Les Agnettes, Rochebret and Jean Raude at Vérin, and Le Biez and Grand Val at Saint-Pierre de Bœuf, all on steep granite at 250–300 metres where the day-to-night swing keeps natural freshness. The vines are twenty-five years old, planted at 10,000 per hectare, trained by the traditional échalas stake method and hand-harvested parcel by parcel. The fruit was whole-bunch pressed for a pure, aromatic juice, cold-settled and racked clear, then fermented at 15–16°C in old 400- and 500-litre French oak barrels with neutral selected yeasts, and aged nine months on its lees without bâtonnage to keep the style clean and mineral. The 2023 season was warm with a fine late autumn, and September conditions let picking run to early October with the fruit in impeccable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with scallops, crab, roast pork with apricot, or a mildly spiced Thai curry. Drink now and over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a DIAM technical cork. 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Grenache Noir 60%, Syrah 15%, Mourvèdre 15%, Cinsault 5%, Counoise 5%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWine has been made on this estate for several hundred years, since the Lançon family arrived from Italy in 1264 to serve the pope in Avignon; the three hats on the label stand for two bishops and a pope among their forebears, and the 38-hectare domaine is run today by Florent Lançon. The vineyard is one of the best-sited in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, thick with the rounded quartzite stones of the Villafranchian period that absorb the day's heat and release it overnight, and it is held to just 30 hectolitres per hectare and certified by Terra Vitis for its work on biodiversity. The hand-picked bunches were sorted, destemmed and moved by gravity into concrete tanks, macerated for around 30 days with wild yeasts to draw out velvety tannins, then matured for 15 months, roughly a tenth in barrels, demi-muids and foudres and the rest in concrete, before bottling without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. It goes with roast lamb, beef short rib, a herb-rubbed pork shoulder or a board of washed-rind and hard cheeses. Drinking well now and over the next three to five years; an hour in a decanter is worthwhile. 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Viognier 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Saint Cosme sits in the southern Rhône appellation of Gigondas and has been in the Barruol family for more than 500 years; Louis Barruol, the fourteenth generation, took over from his father in 1992 and later built a négoce alongside the estate, working in small batches with growers across the valley. This Condrieu comes from that side of the business, off granite sand soils in the nine-mile stretch of the Rhône where the appellation sits, worked and picked entirely by hand from very low-yielding vines. The bunches were sorted and gently pressed at low pressure, then fermented with wild yeasts — 30% in demi-muids, 30% in small barrels and 40% in vats — before eight months in old Burgundy casks, with malolactic fermentation finishing on the fine lees. A long heat wave and significant drought marked 2022, and the vines answered by slowing their growth, giving whites that are fresh, balanced and strongly aromatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10 to 12°C. It suits roast chicken with tarragon, scallops in butter, a mildly spiced Thai fish curry and young goat's cheese. Drinking well now and over the next five to eight years. 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The Frey family have owned it since 2006, with Caroline Frey as winemaker; the vineyards have been certified AB organic since 2016 and, since 2021, farmed biodynamically with a regenerative approach, alongside a nine-hectare wildlife reserve. Parallèle 45 is named for the latitude that crosses France a little over a mile from the Jaboulet cellars, and the fruit comes from vines averaging forty years on clay-limestone soils with alluvial deposits of round pebbles, the whole vineyard certified organic. Vinified by traditional methods, the wine spent six months on its fine lees in stainless steel and truncated cone vats, which is where its purity of fruit and freshness come from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at 15-16°C. Good with roast lamb, sausages and lentils, barbecued pork and a plate of charcuterie. Drink over the next one to three years, while the fruit is at its most forward; no decanting needed. 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Grenache 65%, Mourvèdre 17%, Syrah 10%, Cinsault 3%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Brunel family settled in Châteauneuf-du-Pape in the 17th century and has made wine for five generations; André Brunel took over in 1971 and expanded the estate, which now covers 22 hectares in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and 40 in the Côtes du Rhône, and is farmed sustainably without herbicides or pesticides under HVE certification, today by his son Fabrice. The wine is drawn from several plots, each contributing something different: gravel beds at Bois de la Ville and Les Serres that drain hard and concentrate the juice, red and blue clays at Farguerol and Cansaud for aroma, and the chalky limestone of Cabrières and Revès for structure and length. The countless round pebbles that cover the vineyard, les cailloux, give the wine its name. Grapes were partly destemmed and pressed with minimal extraction, fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled concrete at 28-32°C with daily pump-overs; Grenache and Mourvèdre stayed in concrete for 18 months while the Syrah spent the same time in first- and second-use barriques to soften its tannins, with the final blend assembled six months before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. It suits roast lamb, game birds, braised oxtail, mushroom risotto or a plate of aged cheeses. Drinking well now and over the next three to five years, and better for an hour in a decanter. 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Syrah 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné was founded in 1834 and farms the northern Rhône's iconic terroirs across seven appellations; the Frey family bought it in 2006, and Caroline Frey has made the wines since, keeping a nine-hectare wildlife reserve and working the land regeneratively. The vines sit on the 45th parallel at 250 metres, on terraces cut into a slope averaging a 45% gradient — an eight-hectare plot planted in 1998 on granite degraded to 'gore', with bedrock breaking the surface in places, gobelet-trained on stakes with a south to south-westerly exposure and yielding 25 to 35 hectolitres per hectare; the whole vineyard is certified organic. The fruit was picked by hand, sorted by plot and brought in in 12kg crates, then fully destemmed and macerated for three weeks with daily pump-overs, put through malolactic conversion and aged twelve months in concrete eggs and French oak barrels, 15% of them new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. It goes with roast lamb, peppered steak, sausages with lentils and a mature hard cheese. Drinking well now and over the next five to eight years; an hour in a decanter helps it open out. 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André Brunel took over in 1971 and expanded the estate, earning a worldwide reputation for the intensity and concentration of his wines; it is now in the hands of his son Fabrice, who has installed a new winery. The family holds 22 hectares in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and 40 in the Côtes du Rhône, farmed sustainably and HVE certified, without pesticides or herbicides, and the Bécassonne comes from a single plot particularly suited to white wine - a hill open to the gentle rising sun but screened from the strong setting sun by a pine forest, on clay over a calcareous subsoil, with vines averaging forty years and yielding 40 hectolitres per hectare, each variety picked by hand at its own optimum maturity. Each variety was then fermented separately in concrete vats at a controlled 18°C for fifteen to twenty days, blended, and matured six months in concrete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10-12°C. It works with grilled prawns, roast chicken, a creamy risotto and pork loin. Drink over the next one to three years, while the floral aromatics are at their most vivid; no decanting needed. Sealed with a screwcap. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"André Brunel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476521193855,"sku":"HNW-4632025A","price":19.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/4632025A.jpg?v=1789922686"},{"product_id":"2024-cotes-du-rhone-villages-plan-de-dieu-vieilles-vignes-domaine-saint-damien","title":"Côtes du Rhône Villages, Plan de Dieu Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Saint Damien 2024","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSavoury, warm and spicy, with generous layered red fruit and prunes over the scrub-herb note the French call garrigue. Full-bodied and dry, it is built on ripe fruit rather than grip, the tannins carried along inside the weight. Grenache 80%, Mourvèdre 15%, Carignan 5%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour generations have worked this family estate since 1821. Joel Saurel, the owner, lives in the tiny hamlet of La Baumette just outside Gigondas, where a chapel was built in honour of Saint Damien, an early Christian saint martyred in 287 AD and held to be the patron saint of doctors; his name was taken into the domaine's own in 1979. Romain Saurel joined his father in 2013, and the estate has been certified organic since 2012. The vines lie in Plan de Dieu - the plain of God - first recorded as 'Plan Dei' on a parchment of 1326 and only designated an appellation for red wine in 2005, an alluvial plateau of calcareous gravel that holds water through hot, arid summers under a classic Mediterranean climate with the Mistral running across it. The grapes were picked at optimum maturity, vinified in the traditional manner for 30 days, aged eight months in concrete vats and bottled without fining or filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-18°C. It stands up to lamb shoulder, beef daube, barbecued ribs and an aged hard cheese. Drink over the next one to three years, while the fruit is generous; an hour in a decanter opens it out. 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Syrah 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomaines Paul Jaboulet Aîné was founded in 1834 and works the iconic terroirs of the northern Rhône across seven appellations; the Frey family have owned it since 2006, with Caroline Frey as winemaker, and they keep a nine-hectare wildlife reserve on the estate. The Saint-Joseph vineyard runs along steep hillsides on the right bank of the Rhône, carved into terraces since ancient times; it was known as Vin de Mauves until the Jesuits gave it its present name in the 17th century, growers formed a union to protect that name in the 20th, and the appellation became official in 1956. The cuvée takes its name from Victor Hugo's Légende des Siècles, in which the Grand Pompée, faithful companion to Charlemagne, fought the Moors on the right bank of the Rhône - 'And wine, that wine beloved of the Grand Pompée'. The parcels face south-east on schist and granite, which bring density and texture; the vines are ten to thirty years old, yield 35 hl\/ha and are picked by hand, sorted, then macerated for three weeks with daily pump-overs before twelve months in French oak barrels. The 2022 followed a winter with a significant rainfall deficit and a late budburst, but growth accelerated, flowering came in May and cluster closure by the end of June, making it one of the three earliest vintages in twenty years; the summer was mostly hot and dry, broken by one stormy spell, and the wines are rich and concentrated with beautiful colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-17°C. It suits roast pork, duck, grilled lamb chops and semi-hard cheeses. Drink over the next three to five years; half an hour in a decanter helps it open. 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Picpoul Blanc 30%, Viognier 30%, Marsanne 20%, Clairette 6%, Ugni Blanc 6%, Bourboulenc 5%, Saint Côme 3%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChâteau de Saint Cosme sits in the southern Rhône appellation of Gigondas and has been in the Barruol family for more than 500 years; Louis Barruol took over as the fourteenth generation in 1992 and has since built a négoce alongside the estate, overseeing vineyard management, harvest and vinification himself. The fruit here comes from vines planted in 2014 on the limestone terroir of Saint Martin, in part from massale selections taken in Condrieu and Hermitage; the site had been abandoned because its active limestone levels — the highest in the region, above even Gigondas — made vines very hard to grow, until estate-made compost restored the balance of the soils and brought them back into use. The vineyards are certified organic. Fermentation ran with wild indigenous yeasts, 30% in demi-muids, 30% in small barrels and 40% in vats, and the wine was matured in the same combination, each vessel adding its own layer of complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8 to 10°C. It suits grilled sea bass, a goat's cheese salad, chicken with lemon and herbs, and shellfish. Drinking well now and through the next five years. 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It is now run by two brothers, Laurent making the wine and Dominique looking after the 41 hectares of vineyard, which take in eight hectares of Cornas, five of Saint-Joseph Blanc and nineteen of Saint-Joseph Rouge across the communes of Châteaubourg and Cornas. Courbis hold the southernmost parcels of the Saint-Joseph appellation, on very steep terraced slopes facing south and east, where soils of 70% decomposed granite and 30% clay and limestone hold the day's heat and draw out a long, slow ripening; a green harvest keeps the average yield to 37 hectolitres per hectare. The grapes were hand-picked into small boxes, fully destemmed and lightly pressed, fermented in new vats at 30-32°C with a maceration of twelve to fifteen days for maximum colour extraction, then matured for ten months - 20% in one-year-old oak, 60% in third- or fourth-use oak and 20% in stainless steel - with regular racking before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16-17°C. Good with roast beef, slow-cooked pork belly, grilled sausages and a mature hard cheese. Drink over the next three to five years; give it half an hour in a decanter first. 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Franck-Lin Dalle, the third generation of his family to run the estate, makes the wines from a wide range of traditional Rhône varieties, and in 2019 Campuget was certified Haute Valeur Environnementale, the French scheme recognising biodiversity conservation, plant protection, managed fertiliser use and water management. Costières de Nîmes sits at the eastern edge of the Languedoc but works like the southern Côtes-du-Rhône vineyards across the river, its fairly uniform soils marked by large pebbles over alluvia on gentle, typically south-facing slopes, with strict canopy management balancing sun and shade. La Sommelière is made from selected grapes off the best vines on the estate, traditionally vinified, matured twelve months in oak barriques and bottled without filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16 to 18°C. It suits grilled lamb, merguez sausages, barbecued ribs and a hard sheep's cheese. 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