Cotes du Rhone Blended Wines

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Summary: Cotes du Rhone is a type of blended wine. Learn what tastes and aromas to look for in a Cotes du Rhone wine from an expert sommelier in this free specialty wine video.

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Jane Nickles Jane Nickles is the author of "Wine Speak 101." She is also a wine writer for "The Texas Wine and Food Gourmet" and "Eat and Drink Magazine." Jane is a certi... read more

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Cotes du Rhone Blended Wines

In the South of France, there's a wine-growing region called the Rhone Valley. It happens to be one of the oldest wine-growing regions in France, and it might also be one of the least understood. There's actually two regions to the Rhone Valley. One is in the North, where they make 100 percent varietal wines from Shiraz, and they are called things like Hermitage and Gros Hermitage. They can also be fairly expensive. At the end of the northern Rhone, there's a 60-mile gap, and then you meet and reach the southern Rhone. The southern Rhone is known for blended wines. It's one of the highlights of blended wines throughout the world is a Rhone wine. You can find the Cotes du Rhone wines there. You can find Chateau-Neuf du Pape. And all of these wines are masterful blends of up to thirteen different grapes. The major grapes are Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre. There's also about a dozen others that nobody can pronounce and you've never heard of. However, when you get a Rhone wine, you're always getting a blended wine. It's going to be hearty. It's a warm weather region. It's going to be fruity and floral and spicy and maybe even smell a little bit of orange peel and tar. And if you get one like that, you know you've got one of the best Cotes du Rhone wines in the world. "Cotes" means "slopes", and we're talking about the hilly hillsides and slopes along the Rhone River in the South of France. And if you can't visit there, at least you can drink their wines.