A return to elegant reds in the northern Rhône after a string of solar years. Find notes on the region's white wines in Rhône 2023 – northern whites and a vintage overview in Vintage 2023 – northern Rhône. Above, Guillaume Clusel, Domaine Clusel-Roch in Côte Rôtie.
Côte Rôtie produced a healthy volume of fruit in 2023 and, providing growers reined back on excess and waited for individual parcels to ripen, the quality was there. The added boon was that the heavy mid-September rain that fell in the northern Rhône was sparser in the appellation. 2023 Côte Rôtie is less about...