What's Going On in the World of French Wines

In my last post on the Wine Regions of France, we took our first steps into the Rhône Valley. As I discussed in that post, the Rhone is divided into two distinctly different parts – the Northern Rhône and the Southern Rhône. Our focus today is the Northern part of the valley.

If you were to draw a line from Burgundy through to Beaujolais, the next region below those two on the line would be the Northern Rhône. In fact, climatically speaking, the Northern Rhône actually has a bit more in common with Burgundy than it does with the Southern Rhône. The continental climate of the Northern Rhône means the grape …