The Rhône (/ˈroʊn/; French:Le Rhône[ʁon]; German:Rhone[ˈroːnə]; Walliser German: Rotten[ˈrotən]; Italian:Rodano[ˈrɔːdano]; Arpitan:Rôno[ˈʁono]; Occitan:Ròse[ˈrɔze]) is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France. At Arles, near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, the river divides into two branches, known as the Great Rhône (French: Le Grand Rhône) and the Little Rhône (Le Petit Rhône). The resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region.
Name
The name Rhône continues the name Rhodanus (GreekῬοδανόςRhodanos) in Greco-Roman geography. The Gaulish name of the river was *Rodonos or *Rotonos (from a PIE root *ret- "to run, roll" frequently found in river names).
The Greco-Roman as well as the reconstructed Gaulish name is masculine, as is French le Rhône. This form survives in the Italian namesake, Rodano. German has adopted the French name but given it the feminine gender, die Rhone. The original German adoption of the Latin name was also masculine, der Rotten; it survives only in the Upper Valais (dialectalRottu).
The Rhône is generally divided into two sub-regions with distinct vinicultural traditions, the Northern Rhône (referred to in French as Rhône septentrional) and the Southern Rhône (in French Rhône méridional). The northern sub-region produces red wines from the Syrah grape, sometimes blended with white wine grapes, and white wines from Marsanne, Roussane and Viognier grapes. The southern sub-region produces an array of red, white and rosé wines, often blends of several grapes such as in Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
History
The first cultivated vines in the region were probably planted around 600 BC. The origins of the two most important grape varieties in the northern Rhone (Syrah and Viognier) are subject to speculation. Some say the Greeks were responsible for bringing the Syrah grape from the Persian city of Shiraz. Others say the grape came 50 years later when Greeks fled from the Persian king Cyrus I. Yet others say the grape came from the Sicilian city of Syracuse, whence circa 280 AD the Romans brought it and the Viognier grape. Meanwhile extensive DNA typing and viticultural research has led scientists to conclude that Syrah originated in the Rhône region itself.
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We are scientists who study forest dynamics, plant ecology and plant physiology ... This study built on nearly 20 years of forest research in response to early warning signs of forest loss in the 1990s in the dry RhôneRiver Valley of the Swiss Alps ... ....
Spuntino Wine Bar in Clifton offers an assortment of sparkling wines ... Come New Year’s Eve, you’re liable to have a flute of sparkling wine in your hand ... Crémant is made in Bordeaux, the Rhône and Loire valleys and other heralded French regions.
A creamy Camembert needs a weighty, flavoursome, aromatic white to stand up to it and Viogner, the white grape found in the Rhône Valley, is ideal with its notes of floral apricot and banana cream with a fresh, citrus core.
I love to be spontaneous when I travel, but I also hate to drive ...There are some caveats ... For the other passengers, busy with laptops, this was another working day, but I gazed in frank awe at the valley of the RhôneRiver, which ran jade-green below ... .
Alighting at the station we were stopped in our tracks by the vista of the appropriately named Dents du Midi, the teeth of the south, dozens of jagged canine peaks stretched in a towering, 30km line across the other side of the Rhône valley ... .
Quinn couldn't choose just one — a glass of wine would have him leaning towards a Châteauneuf du Pape, a red wine from the Southern Rhône Valley of France, or Saeculare EtnaRosso, a "chalky"-tasting wine derived from a volcanic region of Sicily... ....
21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- InterRhône, the organization that represents the Rhône Valley Vineyards AOCs, has announced that the 2024 vintage in the Rhône Valley is looking very promising across the Northern and Southern parts of the region.
Château les Oliviers de Salettes, Charols, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Château les Oliviers de Salettesis surrounded by lost valleys and lavender fields ...Indre is where savvy Loire Valley visitors go.
Novelty red wines don’t have to suck (Picture. Getty/Tesco/Aldi/Ocado/Laithwaites/Majestic Wines) ... You know who you are ...Perhaps ‘meaty’ ‘gamey’ or ‘savoury’ are better flavour descriptors, which you’ll find in Syrah and Mourvèdre from the Rhône Valley.
... marsanne, which plays a small (15%) supporting role in the Wildstone, and the roussanne-marsanne blend is the heart of many a wine in France’s northern Rhône Valley where both varieties originate.
Better known for robust reds and rosés, the French regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and the Rhône Valley produce (in small quantities) whites that are deliciously different from the Chardonnays of Burgundy and the Sauvignon Blancs of the Loire.
TescoFinest Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Blanc, France, £9 ...Get this, red wine in the Rhône Valley represents 74% of production, 14% for rosé and only 12% for white wine.
Grenache noir, used to make red wine is the most popular; Grenache Gris is a pinkish grey mutation used to make rosé wines; and Grenache blanc, which is grown in the Rhône Valley and the Languedoc, is used to make white wines.
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09 Dec 2024
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