Undeniable Rhône Reliability
To be clear this is not in the Côtes du Rhône, but instead this is a play on words/metaphor for reliable. I hope you got it. For reliability and value, there may be no region on the planet that delivers time and again like the Côtes du Rhône. The southern French appellation stretches over 200 kilometers from the southern Rhône city of Avignon all the weather north to Vienne in the northern end of the Rhône Valley. Côtes du Rhône is not so much a specific area of the vast Rhône appellations as it is a sort of catch-all. Côtes du Rhône wines may be made from outside of the valley's most highly regarded AOCs like Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Saint-Joseph, or it may very well be de-classified wines that actually comes from within a more prestigious AOC, but is not quite up to the quality that comes with that fancy name, or is perhaps a blend that doesn't fall within the stricter AOC guidelines. For the most part Côtes du Rhône wine blends vary depending upon if they hail f
