The holiday season with lavish dinners or long lunches sometimes demands prestige bottles. If you are planning a red wine for your Christmas or New Year’s meal and like the intense taste of the ...

Vidal-Fleury is smack in the middle of the prestigious Côte Rôtie appellation in the Northern Rhône Valley. Its impressive wine cellar is contemporary, but the estate was founded already in 1781 by ...

Wine lovers, including us, tend to describe wines in terms of tastes because they're fairly easy to reference—a wine that tastes like raspberries compared with gooseberries compared with blueberries, ...

The last two days I have been in Côte-Rôtie and Condrieu, with a few more days still to come. The 2005 reds are superb young wines, with big tannins and lots of ripe fruit. It’s going to be a great ...

In this second of two Tasting Highlights featuring 2004 Côte-Rôtie (the first was published last month), I focus on three domaines with three very different styles. Young Stéphane Ogier now runs his ...

There's no such thing as an inexpensive Côte-Rôtie, so this qualifies as a good buy. Lots of plummy fruit here, but the joy is in the non-fruit elements, notably mineral, cracked pepper, herbs and a ...

One morning after waking up on a friend's couch following a night of plentiful wine, I was sharing breakfast with my host and his 4-year-old son, who broke the silence by asking—or, as it seemed to me ...

The Cote Rotie is home to some of the world's most sacred syrah wines. Nicknames for the Cote Rotie, the "Roasted Slope" and the "Burnt Hillside," conjure imagery of the dark, intense wines this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Transparent Grenaches, stunning Italians and French classics, including some red burgundies that don’t break ...