Rich, ripe and approachable, with the best wines cellar-worthy to boot. See this guide to all our coverage of the 2023 vintage in the Rhône Valley. Above, the harvest team at Le Clos du Caillou, producers of a particularly successful, organic, white Châteauneuf in 2023.
Overall I would say that 2023 was as successful a white vintage as it was red vintage in Châteauneuf. (To read about the reds, see this report.) It was a similar story in that there are some wines with real freshness and minerality but also some wines that were tending towards the flabby spectrum...