Rhône Septentrional - £85 per head

Mostly Syrah, the granitic hills of the northern Rhone nevertheless make an enormous range of wines from the wild to the most intellectual. Only those with inner lives should attend, but that includes everyone from soil-born poet to Hackney-bred slicker.

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

The whites

2014 Philippe Faury St-Joseph Blanc      
2013 Yves Cuilleron Condrieu Les Chaillets 
2012 Remi Niero Condrieu Les Ravines 

Not ready

2011 Franck Balthazar Cornas Chaillot
2010 Gilles Barge Cote Rotie Le Combard
2009 Vincent Paris Cornas Granit 60

Stellar

2003 Chapoutier Ermitage Les Greffieux Rouge    
2011  Bernard Faurie Hermitage Bessards/Meal
2010  Marc Sorrel Hermitage Le Greal
1999  Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage Rouge 

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