Rhône 2023 – Cornas, Côte Rôtie and red Hermitage

Guillaume Clusel, Domaine Clusel-Roch (Côte Rôtie)

A return to elegant reds in the northern Rhône after a string of solar years. For all of our coverage of this vintage, see Rhône 2023 – a guide. 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 concentration (cf 2022) and more about freshness, charm and...