White Rhone wines and more
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008I remember when just hearing the phrase ”Rhone wine” would get me salivating. The reds would perhaps get me going more than the whites but I used to love the white ones as well. Those were in the day when France to some extent still was synonymous with QUALITY wine. Slowly but surely, however, France’s grip on me, and many others, loosened and I started to enjoy the Rhone Viogniers (basically the only white Rhone wine I used to go for) more and more infrequently.
The last really memorable occasion was probably six or seven years ago when a friend, after a couple of drinks at a dinner party, casually opened a Chateau Grillet and generously poured it into any glass that happened to be close by. It was unfortunately not chilled enough but was still a beautiful wine, probably around 4-5 years old, and all that you would expect from a wine with such a famous name. (more…)