Whether you’re new to the region or just want a shortcut to benchmark styles, our Buyer Fiona Hayes has picked out five classic wines from 2018 that are worthy of any cellar Condrieu 2018 Condrieu, Côte Bonnette, Domaine Mouton: This includes a high percentage of fruit from granite soils, which is particularly useful in 2018 […]

At our last Rhône tasting we met up with Michaël Gerin, part of a new generation of Côte-Rôtie winemakers – and son of the great Jean-Michel Gerin – to talk minerality, medals and making wine in Spain. It’s six years since I started work at Domaine Jean-Michel Gerin. My younger brother, Alexis, started three years […]

Yves Gangloff is a mercurial genius fêted for producing uniformly outstanding wines through his micro-domaine in the Rhône. We caught up with him to learn a little more about his passion for Côte-Rôtie – and guitars. I did not plan to be a winemaker. I was visiting my brother, who had just found an atelier for […]

I get often asked: “What wine would you drink if your days were numbered?” It is a very difficult question to answer, not because I don’t have my preferences, favourites or have never experienced a wine moment where I said to myself:  “This wine is a proper one, whose transparency lets its sense of place […]