If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Rhone Valley in southeastern France. You may find a bargain, and I hope you have fun on this fact-filled wine tour in education, we write the area’s most famous wine, a white Chateauneuf-du-Pape, which comes from some of the vineyards stoniest have you’ll ever see. The Rhone Valley ranks of the acreage under eleven wine-growing regions of France second. It’s really a question of two separate areas with very different wines. The narrow northern Rhone Valley produces only a small fraction of the Rhone wines. The most important red grapes of Syrah, and its large white variety Viognier. Traditionally blended wines in the southern Rhone Valley. For example, the red and white Chateauneuf-du-Pape AOC wine can include more than a dozen different grape varieties. The white Chateauneuf-du-Pape reviewed below includes four varieties of Grenache blanc, Rousssane, Bourbuolenc and Clairette. With the exception of Roussane, these are not a high-quality grapes. Many of the other approved varieties are also pedestrian grapes. But Chateauneuf-du-Pape is certainly finer than a wine. You’ll never see them on a $ 10 wine list. Only once in a while you’ll see it on a $ 15 wine list. The village of Chateauneuf-du-Pape is home to about two thousand people, and some very famous French wines. During the fourteenth century, seven French popes in their home near Avignon, and they got their table wine from the town named new castle of the pope. You may want to visit the Musee de Vignerons Pere Anselme of Outils (The Father Anselm Museum of winemakers Tools) or the ruins of the castle. The nearby city of Orange has visited a large Roman theater and even an Arc de Triomphe, much less than their namesake Paris. Before checking the Chateauneuf-du-Pape wine, are a few suggestions about what to eat with indigenous wines when touring in the region. Start with Soupe de Lentilles Provençale (Provencale lentil soup). For your second course enjoy Pates aux Coquillages (Seafood Pasta). And as dessert indulge yourself Fougassette (Bread with Sweet Orange Flower Water). Our wine review policy all the wines we taste and review are purchased at full retail price. Reviewed Wine Chateauneuf-du-Pape Blanc La Fiole 13% over $ 22. 50 Let’s start by quoting the marketing materials. Tasting Note: Pale gold, mineral and grapefruit aromas, crisp and dry with a mineral taste. Serving suggestion: with fish or seafood. In the first sip, I tasted honey and minerals. The wine was slightly sweet. The first pairing was ground with a Middle-Eastern dish called Kube (or Kibbe), consisting of ground beef in jackets made from wheat, slow cooked in a peppery tomato sauce. The wine tasted of grapefruit. It was pretty long and quite strong. My next meal is a grilled chicken breast in a caramelized sauce, potato salad and a Moroccan-style tomato salsa with garlic, which centered not accompanied very sharp. The wine was sweet as a lot of Riesling. It went well with the chicken’s sweetness. The acid content was slightly increased, but was the food. The Chateauneuf-du-Pape prevailing taste was grapefruit. In the presence of a sweet, but sour, high-quality French style lemon tart, the wine was round, but weak. The last meal was fried salmon fillet in a honey-soy sauce and brown rice cooked in tomatoes and zucchini. The wine is soft acid was a huge compliment to the softness of the fish. Grapefruit came back with the rice and zucchini combo. The wine went well with acid, the acid of the tomatoes. The first was a cheese mozzarella. The wine was round, powerful, honest and wasted. With a yellow Cheddar, the wine was pretty tasteless. It was not only up to this rather weak cheese. final verdict. I would buy this wine again, but watch out exactly what I pair it with. Never again would he be wasted with a pedestrian cheese. My idea of a great wine in the evening might be with this white Chateauneuf-du-Pape starting to accompany a fillet of salmon with a red Chateauneuf-du-Pape with a leg of lamb or roast duck, followed. And a bit like the French popes live nearly seven years.