Châteauneuf-du-Pape
(Blend)

Wine Style:
Often big, rich, full-bodied with spicy and raspberries flavors with capability for 5 to 20 bottle aging.
Flavors:

Origin:
Rhone Valley in France
Found:
California, Australia, and France
The vast majority of wines from the Southern Rhône are blends. There are 5 main black varieties, although others are used and the […]

Grenache/Garnacha

Wine Style:
This is a sweet grape which is rich in alcohol, fruity, spicy, medium-bodied wine and often blended with other grapes.
Flavors:

Origin:
France
Found:
Rhone in France, Spain, and Australia
This is a strong grape which withstands extreme heat and warm climate well. It has a thin skin, little pigment and ripens slowly with a high level […]

Rosé

Wine Style:
It’s also sometimes called blush. Any light pink wine, dry to sweet, made by removing the skins of red grapes early in the fermentation process or by mixing red and white.
Flavors:

Origin:
Nil
Found:
Southern France, Spain, Italy, California
Technically, a rose is an “unfinished red wine,” but the term seems so- secondary. Rose is a different sort […]

Pierre Perrin (Chateau de Beaucastel)

To many French Rhone lovers, Château de Beaucastel enjoys an almost legendary reputation as one of the great estates in Châteauneuf du Pape. It is owned by the Perrin family.Our overall impression was Beaucastel wines are made definitely with good quality, they have personality and a sense of place, something […]

Château de Beaucastel
Châteauneuf-du-Pape in Southern Rhône
Rhône in France

Click to read: Behind The Bottle; Pierre Perrin.
This 17th century wine estate has a vineyard area of 119 hectares, and is located in the town of Courthézon on the southern Rhône in France.
Today, it is run by the fourth generation of the Perrin family. Brothers Jean-Pierre and […]

Southern Rhone
Côtes du Rhone (芳莎丽庄园)

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Classified in 1937, the Cotes du Rhone is an enormous appellation encompassing red, white and rosé wines covering an area of 40,300 ha and producing a crop that is 3 times larger than Beaujolais and almost as much as Bordeaux. Although this wine […]

Southern Rhone
Gigondas (吉恭达斯)

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Gigondas has been renowned for the quality of its wines since Roman times although it was not really until Gigondas was classified as a Côtes du Rhône Villages in 1966 that it really began to realise its potential. It achieved AC status in 1971 and today produces […]