Not a bad quaffer for the Grand Final season. The colour is good and the nose has nice fennel/licorice aromas with a little blackberry. The palate is soft and easy to quaff and shows exactly what the nose suggested. There was something on the middle palate that wasn’t nice but ...

I started my summer cycling trip in the Rhone, so it’s only fair to drink a little now. Domaine Vieux Manoir de Maransan 2004 is a blend of Grenache Blanc, Roussane, Voignier and Clairette. That’s a lot of grapes! It’s a rich lemon colour with plenty of fresh fruity aromas. There’s apricots ... for a cautious wine buyer wanting to dip their toe in the Rhone...

We had a Tesco Finest Crozes Hermitage 2003 with dinner last night. I’d picked it up with the groceries to make dinner as I was in the mood for something warm and spicy (it’s an autumn thing). Hermitage is a world class wine, with a price to match, but Crozes Hermitage comes from the flatter ground around the famous Hermitage hill in the northern Rhone, and is much, much cheaper. The wine...

We had a Tesco Finest Crozes Hermitage 2003 with dinner last night. I’d picked it up with the groceries to make dinner as I was in the mood for something warm and spicy (it’s an autumn thing). Hermitage is a world class wine, with a price to match, but Crozes Hermitage comes from the flatter ground around the famous Hermitage hill in the northern Rhone, and is much, much cheaper. The wine...

Saint Joseph bashes into the side of Chateau Grillet and then zooms off South for sixty kilometres…..there is a fair bit of variation in both the style and quality in the wine produced in Saint-Joseph but it is probably the appellation in the Rhone, that has the most potential in terms of future plantings...

I had a Rhone rose this week. I was in the mood for something pink and fruity so picked a reasonably priced one. It was certainly pink, with just a hint of orange lurking within. It smelled clean but not as fresh as I’d hope from a 2005. There was a hit of strawberries with some minerality. It was dry, with a balanced acidity and a hint of tannin. It tasted of strawberry jam, the cheap no-label...

I had a Rhone rose this week. I was in the mood for something pink and fruity so picked a reasonably priced one. It was certainly pink, with just a hint of orange lurking within. It smelled clean but not as fresh as I’d hope from a 2005. There was a hit of strawberries with some minerality. It was dry, with a balanced acidity and a hint of tannin. It tasted of strawberry jam, the cheap no-label...

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