Southern Rhône 2007 – the tasting notes

Above is how Mont Ventoux looks at the moment from Chateauneuf, in a photograph taken by Michel Blanc of the Federation of vignerons.

See this guide to 2007 Rhône tasting notes on this site.

The great majority of the 300 southern Rhône wines described, with much enthusiasm, below are Châteauneuf-du-Papes tasted blind in Châteauneufitself, in substantial random groupings of regular (Tradition) red wine cuvées, reds regarded by their makers as special cuvées and whites.

There are also notes on some southern Rhône 2007s tasted in London, generally indicated by a price underneath the tasting...