Some people reckon that there is a
movement towards Super-Rhones (in the way that Super-Tuscans changed the
local wine-making scene all those years ago). I wonder. Certainly there have
been wines emerging which take lowly legal status because they are dissatisfied
with AOC regulations which they view as tying their hands. Certainly, the
Heluicum pictured above and its sister Sotanum from the Seyssuel vineyards
cartainly have VdP designations which belie their quality (which in the case of
Sotanum gives quite a few Cote-Rotie across the river a run for their money, so
the critics say). There is also the Chene Bleu estate of which I had previously
blogged. Are these just individual cases, or do they signify the beginnings of
a wider movement? Only time will tell.
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