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Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2025: Powerful Reds, Precocious Whites
featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Oct 2026
Châteauneuf-du-Pape finds itself at a fascinating juncture, with the contrasting 2024 and 2025 vintages leading to an exceptionally early 2026. Picking decisions proved crucial in the warm 2025 season, while white Châteauneuf-du-Pape has reached record production and varietal diversity.
Gigondas 2025: A Warm, Rain-Divided Vintage
featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Sep 2026
Two thousand twenty-five is a vintage of contrasts in Gigondas, shaped by a hot, dry summer and record rainfall just as harvest approached. Picking decisions proved crucial, resulting in stylistic heterogeneity. Still, the best reds combine ripeness, structure and serious aging potential, while the whites are among the vintage’s highlights. I also revisit the more classically proportioned 2024s from bottle.
Jura: France's Mysterious Outsider
France: Jura, featured
, Aug 2026
Winemakers in Jura rarely follow a script. Neither did the last two vintages. While the mercurial 2025 growing season produced promising young reds, the frost- and mildew-ravaged 2024 vintage has emerged far more positively than anticipated, led by whites that are at times outstanding. This report focuses on Château-Chalon AOC, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, explores the newly released 2019 Vin Jaunes and Château-Chalons, and offers an early look at a 2026 growing season that is on track to become the earliest on record.
The Delights of Southern France
France, featured
, May 2026
Southern France is one of the wine world’s hidden frontiers, full of wines that overdeliver on character, value and sheer discovery. This report captures not just Mediterranean splendour, but also the exciting rise of serious, terroir-driven wines across the South of France. From Bandol to the Languedoc, our inaugural article is a guide to one of France’s most rewarding wine landscapes.
Northern Rhône 2024: One Hill Rises
featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Jan 2026
In 2024, the Northern Rhône delivered Syrahs of striking aromatic typicity, anchored by a distinctive peppery profile reminiscent of past cooler vintages. This report examines how an exceptionally challenging growing season shaped both red and white wines across all eight appellations. After a final word on the in-bottle 2023 reds, I look ahead to the extremely low-yielding 2025 harvest and the potential addition of a new cru to the region.
Greece: From Ancient Roots to Modern Glory
Greece, featured
, Dec 2025
Our inaugural report on Greek wines explores how centuries of tradition meet modern ambition across the country’s defining grape varieties and regions. From Assyrtiko’s volcanic brilliance in Santorini to Xinomavro’s Nebbiolo-like elegance in the north and Moschofilero’s fragrant allure in the Peloponnese, Greece’s storied vineyards are writing a bold new chapter in their long history.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2005: The Grand Backbone Vintage
Verticals & Retrospectives, featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Dec 2025
After 20 years, the 2005 vintage in Châteauneuf-du-Pape stands as a striking example of the region’s ability to deliver wines that age with grace. These wines combine notable structural integrity, enticing tertiary development and remarkable balance, offering both immediate pleasure and the occasional promise of further evolution. Two thousand five remains an outstanding vintage of classic beauty and intrigue.
Remembering Emmanuel Reynaud
Vinous Remembers, featured
, Nov 2025
The wine world has lost one of its quiet visionaries. On November 25, 2025, Emmanuel Reynaud, steward of Château Rayas, Château de Fonsalette and Château des Tours, passed away after a long illness. His legacy endures in the terroirs he cherished, and in the hands of the next generation.
Vacqueyras: The Long Road to Recognition
featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Nov 2025
Vacqueyras stands at a crossroads, balancing years of progress with the need to define its true identity among Southern Rhône regions. From vineyard setbacks to market shifts, the 2024 vintage captures both the challenges and quiet confidence of a region finding its voice. This report explores how Vacqueyras’ long road to recognition is edging toward self-discovery.
Gigondas 2024: Birth of a Modern Classic
featured, France: Rhône & Beaujolais
, Nov 2025
Gigondas continues to assert its place among the Southern Rhône’s most dynamic appellations. This report delves into the 2024 vintage, a year defined by a return to wines of classic proportions, alongside the approachable and fruit-driven 2023s.