The Montirius episode was one of your best. Love the garrigue and never met a Côtes du Rhône that I didn't want to try or to finish. Saint Cosme and Kermit Lynch are staples. btw. I keep meaning to thank you for the tip on the Rovsya glasses - versatile and have held up well. I rarely feel like I need to go for a special glass.
Wowww thanks so much. I agree that CdR are simply delicious wines and it's rare that I am ever disappointed by a bottle, no matter the complexity or simplicity...
A series on under the radar wine regions would be good. From France at least I can think of Bergerac, Gaillac, Cahors, Madiran, Chinon, some of the lesser known Bordeaux appellations like Castillon. That's just France, I'm sure there are many more in Italy and Spain.
At the start of this channel it wss all about unique regions… as cool as that sounds to you and I, people are not as interested. I find it better to pepper them in alongside more well known regions
@@drmatthewhorkey that's a shame. I've been in the wine trade all my professional life and I'm now priced out of certain areas like Burgundy for instance. I have no choice but to go to lesser known regions and seek out value elsewhere. I refuse to pay £20+ for a basic Bourgogne blanc or rouge.
I'm with you, Jim! I go for off the radar reds- never easy to find- favorites: Teroldego Rotaliano (Italy) & a Hermanos Lurton - Toro (Spain) -do try these (if you haven't already) -I love the QPR. Happy hunting!
When I think of cote du Rhone I think of low to no oak..which I enjoy.. warmer climate more skin/fruit extraction .. Some s spice some meat .. leather or just minerality i think from type of soil . I enjoy.. them...
Cotes du Rhone was probably my first foray into "serious" wine when I started learning more about region and varietal and not choosing wines just on colour and price point. It helped that I was living in Lyon at that time and the reasonable prices and variety of wines that were available. Sitting in a brasserie in Vieux Lyon, sipping on leftover Rhone wine with a platter of Saint Marcellin brings back memories. Ironically, I didn't learn about Cote Rotie wines until I moved to Paris. They were probably outside my budget 😂
There is so much overlooked and amazing if not phenomenal "value" wine out there. There is no reason to be buying supermarket brands like Josh or Meiomi unless you're at a gas station. Go to an actual wine store, ask for recommendations within your budget price and explore some good wines.
What’s with the brown paper bags? Come on Dr you can do better than this. Time to invest in some proper covers as it looks like a grocers counter rather than a cool wine channel
@@drmatthewhorkey your channel getting great deserved momentum…time for Dr Horkey 2.0 with some bottle cover upgrades rather than ‘homeless person concealing liquor on street’ covers
I got to try a Cotes du Rhone called Lavau, couldn't believe the elegance and freshness and cost only $15. I got another CdR in my cellar from the Perrin family at the same price, can't wait to try it.
Another great video, thanks. I really enjoy the blinds and appreciate when you point out budget/value bottles that are available across the USA. I now have a couple more I'll be hunting for. Cheers.
I had quite a lot of primarily southern Rhône wines over the years and my go to everyday wine was for many years the Janasse Terre d'Argile, which is a Côtes du Rhône Villages . Perhaps not the cheapest but really excellent value from my perspective.
I cannot agree 💥 ....i drank copious amounts of Cote du Rhône and i find Portugal and Spain a much stronger source of quality/value wines. If we are talking in the 20€ range of wines....i mean there's no comparison according to my palate of course. Dão, Bairrada, Arrábida , Rioja and Ribera crianza.
Just drank (and payed 19€) the Clos Mont Olivet VV CdR Last week and though pleasant its miles away from a Passarella O Enólogo VV or Niepoort Lagar de Baixo drank SIDE by SIDE. Dont get me wrong i love French wine but value in the main regions is in my opinion miles away from a country like Portugal
You are speaking to the choir... I love Portugese wine... CdR from Southern Rhône is made in big quantities though and is widely available for people around the world...
The Total by me always has this Halos de Jupiter Cote du Rhone for between $17 & $19. Real wine at a tremendous value! One day my cousin and I tried it next to a $60 Gigondas and it was right there.
I absolutely love everything I've had from Cairanne and I hope they get their official AOC designation soon. They have a unique flavor profile in the region and they are a great value (unless they suddenly get more popular!)
The St Cosme CDR. has been delicious for over 40 years in my experience- and they have been making it for over 500 years - so I would go with the streak😂
Good video, in a trip to Chile last year I tried two cotes du rhone wines and really liked them, even I bought a vacqueyras to take it to Bolivia since here is almost impossible to find old World wine, which brings me to a video idea that might interest you, when you travel to a different country, how do you choose wines to bring back home? Do you prefer to buy wines that you cannot find in USA, or go for the offers, for example a 90 USD wine in US that in the home country is 40 USD, also some tips on how many wines you can bring and how you pack them, these because in the last trip to Chile I bought only World wines impossible to find in Bolivia, but Now thinking about it, I should have bring at least one higher end Chilean wine, that I might find here, but the prices are crazy high.
Wines I bring home these days either have a memory attached to them or wines that I think will be a good inclusion for video topics... Soon I will be in the Languedoc and I will bring back a cheap yet good rosé for an upcoming video hahaha
@@drmatthewhorkey interesting, normally, how many wines you bring home with you? And you put them in a separate wine box or you put them inside your luggage? Last time I brought four because I didnt know the limit and didnt want to have problems with the airline or customs, tried calling the airline but it was impossible to get information.
Nice video and congrats on the views. This was a popular topic it seems. I grabbed an $8 cotes du rhone from Kaufland last year and I'm guessing it would be available for around $5 in France. It was quite impressive for the price point and better than many local wines in the price range.
Thanks… Kaufland does a good job with blending wines under their label. For their wines, consultants go around the regions and pick vats of wine to be blended for their private labels.
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Good note on pronunciation - when I was working on the floor, some of my somms would feel so proud to correct people’s pronunciation of wines. When in fact they were just being rude. Especially in a situation like You described -> being on the date! 🤯 Crazy people out there! 😓
I cannot advise you personally on this as all people are different but higher quality wine is preserved by tannin and acid, which are natural along with a small amount of sulfites (less than packaged foods)
Plenty of great value for money wines there ! But it's getting harder for many producers there as the production is too high and demand lower these days ! Drink Rhone ;)
Another great video. Watching while sipping some nice Riesling (hint, hint, time for another Riesling video), Weingut Heinrich Mayer Zeller Petersborn-Kapertchen Spätlese *** 2015, that I bought for........8 euro! NOW we're talking value.
To be honest, I often struggle with Cote du Rhones - I've tried some well-rated GSMs (even amongst CDP / Gigondas / Rasteau) - but I find that for the price you pay, they can lack depth / length, especially considering the ABV. Smooth and easy-drinking, but I've tended to find them a little uninteresting given that they're often such big wines.
Thank you for the video 😊 Awesome hearing your tasting sentences I'll be on the lookout for the top ones Thanks And I'll be more than happy to subscribe and encourage your channel 👍 Kudos
nice you picked the VA and style on the first one , as well on Pegau as with high levels of Brett it is quite the marker here. I know it is a highly revered wine, but some like the style very much... Presidente is quite a big estate in CDR standards, and is a bargain, with consistant quality. Richaud Ebrescade is a master wine and the whole range is to be sought after. So many options in the southern Rhône, and south of France, Languedoc is another top pick with more Carignan , many nice estates, one may check most Chateauneuf du Pape like Charvin, Janasse and so manic others. But the upper villages like Baumes de Venise IE, and the Sablet/Seguret area which is juts out of Gigondas area... Rasteau and Cairanne are on a plateau facing the Dentelles and Escaravailles is one to look after, so is Ourea, or La Robin in a lighter and fresh style... Everybody enjoy southern Rhône, one place to go for good value. I have tasted much wines from southern Italy and a little less from Spain, Italy never comes with very good value in the south with Primitivo or Negroamaro, they are off dry and too worked on mostly... Oaky sometimes, only Spain in Navarra so far is able to do some interesting terroir grenache.
I love southern Rhone wines. And it's true cote du Rhone are great value wines. I like the funk some of them have.. Pegau has lots of it. I really. Enjoy their style
The last time I opened several Cotes du Rhone, they were all $20 or less and with the modern style of low tannin winemaking, I just figured they would be pop and pour. I wish I had held them for at least another year. There was real value there. I do prefer a splash of Mourvedre in the blend. I have heard a few of the younger winemakers are saying they just are not happy with the Syrah they can grow in the Southern Rhone and so might start to make Grenache/Mourvedre blends. Sounds good to me.
Cotes du Rhone are one of my favorite wines and also one of the first ones that I started drinking when I seriously got into wine. They offer tremendous value for price and can be very high quality.
Your links for the wines on this video and at least the last one are not opening also the video category on your website isn't working either. just wanted to let you know 😊
@@drmatthewhorkey Correct. Mr Troon went to the Vinyard in the Sky and there are new ( a few years back) owners. We have dozens of very fine Vineyards.. I am in Jacksonville, not 3 miinutes from 4 of them. : )
I enjoyed your video! Don't say this too loud. It's my favourite region for price-quality and I don't want the prices to go up. )) I buy quite some wines from Lirac, Sablet, Cairanne and Gigondas. Even a lot of standard CdR is quite good. GSM is anyway my thing.
Years back i got the letter every year from Mordoree about reine des Bois Chateauneuf du pape that allowed me to buy 12 bottles of it from the domaine at a ridicolous low price. One year it received 100 points from Robert Parker and tripled in value right after.I also bought their Lirac Reine Bois even quite a bit cheaper..Janasse Clos des papes. Sabon. Pegau and others. I bought loads of too from the domaines. World class wines at extremely low price compared to the quality.Sadly those Days are gone. Much more expensive now and my families House in Southern France is sold😭😢
One of my all time favourites. Often delivers lovely every day wines for 3-5 Euros, from supermarkets, here in Europe. I think the 8-10 Euro range is especially strong when it comes to value...
I have been drinking a few northern Côtes du Rhônes lately as I got carried away with some en primeur offers. Côtes du Rhône had great vintages in 2016/17/18/19 and I invested in a few cases in each of those years. I have enjoyed some of the 16s and having not drunk much Côtes du Rhônes before am really enjoying them. Some great bargains to be had.
@@drmatthewhorkey thanks for your videos, which are very interesting and of course widen all our eyes to some wines that maybe otherwise we would not be enjoying!
@@drmatthewhorkey I had a bottle of South African GSM recently that was $15 and drank like a $35+ bottle of wine. Some of the South African wines are really impressive, especially from the smaller vineyards that really express their terroir 👍🏼
Yes it can, there are several types of Brett and different people interpret them differently organoleptically... Meaty flavors can also come in young wines after fermentations.
There is a lot of literature on the subject, google will be your best friend! I also did a video tasting wine faults that were sent to me a few years ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c-ViKNRiq84.html
When I first got into wine in the early 80s Cotes du Rhone were one of my first loves Inexpensive around $5 back then but with great flavors not overly tannic and great food wines Still that way today 40 years later! Not too many wines regions can top that It is also interesting to note the differences in the northern and southern wines due to the higher percentage of syrah redfruit vs blackfruit flavors
