Archive for the 'Rhone & The Midi' Category

Rhone Tasting Part 4 - St Joseph, Cornas and Hermitage

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Room Three, which is largest gallery at the Saatchi, featured a series of wines from the lower Northern Rhône. It was buzzing with excitement.
Four domaines were pouring. Domaine Barret’s Crozes Hermitage

Rhone Tasting Part 3 - The South

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The finest art space coupled with an array north to south of our celebrated Rhone growers made for a fascinating and highly enjoyable evening last Tuesday.

Rhone Road Trip

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

In order to have the samples for our Rhone Tasting in the best possible condition, we sent our latest recruit, Harry Scott-Dempster, off in a Transit van to collect the bottles.

Rhone Tasting Part 2 - The Midi

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Room One had to be the most diverse room certainly in flavours and also geographically speaking as all the estates came from different parts of Southern France.

Rhone Tasting Part 1 - Cote Rotie

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Cote Rotie (’the roasted slope’) is the most northerly region of the Northern Rhone valley. I don’t think that many people have heard of this region unless