Rhone Méridionale - £75 per head

Hot, dry territory, subject to almost constant drought and natural home to the Grenache grape. This Spanish native, long domiciled in southern France, produces some of the most hedonistic, and orgiastically Bacchic wines known to man. We'll have none of that sort of behaviour here, thank you, but you get the idea.

This is our current thinking on what we'd like to taste, not necessarily in this order:

Mature

1999 Chateau Beaucastel Chateauneuf-du-Pape

1999 Clos des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape

2000 Domaine du Pegau Chateauneuf Reservee

2000 Pierre Usseglio Chateauneuf Mon Aieul

Producer vertical

2001 Chapoutier Chateauneuf Croix de Bois

2007  Chapoutier Chateauneuf Croix de Bois

2010  Chapoutier Chateauneuf Croix de Bois

Wrong colour

1998 Chateau de Beaucastel Chateauneuf Roussanne Vieilles Vignes

2011 Clos des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

2011 Saint Prefert Chateauneuf-du-Pape Blanc

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