How To Use Rhone In A Sentence
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It was the dead of winter and there was snow on the ground and sheets of ice on the Rhone.
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Another less useful and sometimes damaging effect of mountains is their funnelling properties: The Mistral is a cold northerly wind that is redirected through the Rhone valley by the surrounding heights.
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It was not until 1966 that the Cotes Du Rhone Villages appellation was finally established producing wines from 16 individual communes.
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Of the two Tain Houses, Jaboulet's Cotes du Rhone shades the Chapoutier effort with more of a pepper and savoury green olive flavour.
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Australia's Shiraz actually came from the Rhône Valley, via one man, who was on a vine-collecting journey to Europe's great wine regions for the benefit of Australian viniculture.
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The chief of these were the Burgundians, who were the first to establish themselves in burgs, in the country between the Alps and the Rhone, and were already Christians; and the Franks, who came over the Rhine, and whose royal line was properly called the Salic (from the river Yssel), but is also known as the Meerwings (sons of Meerwig), and as the Long-haired, because unshorn locks were a token of royal descent.
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One negotiant might have wines that cost as much as $100 or $1,000 per bottle, but it may also put plenty of care into its Côtes du Rhône that sells for as little as $8 or $9 per bottle.
Cotes du Rhone Wine Shopping Tips
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O'Grady and Geslin were still in the lead, some hundred miles into the stage, when the peloton climbed steadily into the area known as Le Forez, the watershed between the rivers Saone and Rhone.
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the valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards
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Rhone Resch , president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, praised Obama's speech.
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The overwhelming feel here is of a big-boned, but savoury southern Rhone wine.
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I find it interesting, especially given a life time of lectures from France on terroir alongside criticisms of French non-varietal labels, that it is in grapes such as Syrah that French Rhone wines seem to hold up better in the market while the New World sinks.
Syrah: beyond the fruit bomb | Dr Vino's wine blog
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For a simpler lunchtime quaff I'd opt for the red Domaine Herbouze Côtes due Rhône 2000, which is soft and slightly peppery.
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This pale, full-bodied rosé is as good as anything being produced in more expensive Tavel in the Rhône valley.
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the army made a final stand at the Rhone
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The problem is that, apart from Champagne, the top Bordeaux chateaux and the big names in Burgundy and the Rhone, the rest of the country cannot seem to reach the 21st century wine lover.
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Superbly situated, magnificently endowed as to climate, the _chef-lieu_ of the Bouches du Rhône must be called a slatternly beauty; whilst embellishing herself, putting on her jewels and splendid attire, she has forgotten to wash her face and trim her hair!
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Most of the accommodation in this area is clustered on a north-facing plateau looking across the Alps to the Rhone valley.
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She allegedly forced treasures down the waste disposal or threw others into the Rhine-Rhone canal near the Swiss border.
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But now one can find cuvées laden with oak-infused Syrah, mimicking the sleek wines of the northern Rhone more than the generous Grenache-based wines we are used to seeing from the south.
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Also in the bay is the anchor and chain from the Rhone, only discovered encrusted in coral a few years previously.
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The Rhone Rangers also have produced a host of Rhonestyle blends, usually with a high percentage of grenache.
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Organic wines are not as prevalent in supermarkets as they should be, so this ripe, spicy, plummy red, with its gentle pepper-and-creosote rhône fruit makes a welcome new addition to summer swigging.
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I usually order the excellent steak frites, which is served with truffle butter and house-made aioli, with a glass of Côtes du Rhône.
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I made my way back to the valley flatlands of the Rhone.
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The Euxine is meant in any case and the word Ionian is therefore wrong.] [Footnote 1403: Apollonius seems to have thought that the Po, the Rhone, and the Rhine are all connected together.] [Footnote 1404: i.e. like the scrapings from skin, APOSTLEGGISMATA; see
The Argonautica
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Pyramidal cypress and white poplar are used in an estimated 75 percent of the quickset hedgerows in the lower Rhone.
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We want to see Richard Seaton blow up the Fenacrhone space-battlewagon with his third-order zone of force, assuming he can escape from the fourth-dimensional evil of the hyperplane.
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The city is situated at the southwestern end of Lac Leman, generally called Lake Geneva, which is also the country's largest lake, and astride the Rhone River, which bisects the city.
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Burgundy, Austria and some Rhone plus many backwood appelation French
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While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”.
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The most famous katabatic wind in Europe is the Mistral, which blows down the Rhône valley in southern France and out into the Mediterranean.
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He has pushed the Rhone towards a modern style that emphasises fruit and clarity over crusted, barrel-aged, black wines.
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In an attempt to allay these concerns, Rhone and other staff members met with citizens from the rehabilitation area several times.
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The course of the Rhone has been controlled, the Durance canalled, dikes have been built to restrain the fierce torrents, which, at the melting of the snows, pour in liquid avalanches from the summits of Mt. Ventoux.
The Companions of Jehu
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The Cruas Nuclear Power Station on the Rhone river was competed in 1985 and today provides France with nearly 5% of its electric energy annually.
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This applies to no more than a handful of wine styles: claret, red and white Burgundy, Rhône reds, Tuscan and Piedmontese reds, vintage port, vintage champagne, a few Spanish reds, Mosel Rieslings and Californian Cabernets.
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Les-Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in the Camargue, watery delta of the Rhone, is more like the wild west than the south of France, with white horses and bulls among the tall reeds, flocks of flamingos, huge never-ending sandy beaches, frenetic gypsy music in the market, crazy Mistral wind and mosquitos making for a memorable time.
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From a great producer in one of the northern Rhône's most overlooked appellations, this is a spicy, violet perfumed Syrah with just a hint of oak.
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Mesquite: strong flavor--not exactly tangy like the catclaw, but like SuperHoney, however not much aftertaste
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Other varieties enjoying modish popularity in the late 1990s were Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, and some which have origins in the Rhône; Syrah and Viognier are foremost.
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Lazarus became the first Bishop of Marseilles, and Saint Martha ascended the Rhone as far as Avignon and built near the site of the present
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It is reminiscent of the exotic Rhone Condrieu, but the wash is lighter and clearly more citric.
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It was easy to grow—adaptable and prolific, not to mention stylistically diverse, ranging from the minerally, peppery style of the Northern Rhône, its ancestral home, to the headier, more opulent style of Australian Shiraz.
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We ceased to encounter any village or ruin mentioned in our "particularizes" and detailed Guide of the Rhone -- went drifting along by the hour in a wholly unknown land and on an uncharted river!
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The novice can start out with inexpensive Languedoc, move up north to Rhone, play around in Beaujolais, and then begin to explore Burgundy.
Of Burgundy, Bordeaux and pork bellies [poll] | Dr Vino's wine blog
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This part of the southern Rhône is probably vinously the least known of the southern section of the Rhône, although there are some very enjoyable wines here, at a less expensive price range.
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The Senate sent a second army to hold the bridges at the Rhone River.
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The Rhone Rangers also have produced a host of Rhonestyle blends, usually with a high percentage of grenache.
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Tweed walked out into the overcast Place Bel-Air and crossed a bridge spanning the Rhône.
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Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.
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The mistral of the southern Rhône is one of the more notorious examples of this.
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Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhône valley.
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While there may be a whole group of Californian winemakers that dedicate their abilities to recreating Old-World styles of wine-they call themselves the Rhone Rangers-in general, the style of Californian wine that has won over the taste buds of so many a wino is the ripe, fruit-driven, New-World style.
Vue Weekly
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In real terms this means the vinous equivalent of blue-chip stocks - classed-growth clarets, a very small number of burgundies and Rhone reds, some Italian reds and a handful of rare New World ‘boutique’ wines.
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Il revient, il revient, il revient, sing the river Garonne, the Gulf of Lyon, the Rhône, the Tarn.
Albert Walks
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Spicy this word is associated with the Syrah grape ( "peppery" is another) that's grown in the Rhone Valley, Australia and various parts of the world including California and Washington.
Finding the Words for Wine
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But the immediate result of the Chavin report was that Pucheu sacked Chavin—who was duly exiled to the Bouches-du-Rhône as a prefect—and tried to silence the press in Paris though the reporters were ultimately protected by the German authorities.
The Sion Revelation
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Although Rasteau is the chosen name for this variable drink, the grapes may be grown anywhere in the communes of three Côtes-du-Rhône villages: Rasteau, Cairanne, and Sablet.
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While the faithful filed into the church for Sunday Mass offered by their archbishop, Philippe Cardinal Barbarin, protestors representing Lesbian and Gay Pride, the Gay and Lesbian Forum, and AIDS Rhône unfurled a banner reading “The condom is life - The Church prohibits it” while chanting, “No to the callote (zucchetto), long live the capote (condom)”.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The mountain massifs to the east of the Rhône, however, were less rich in metal ores.
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Sunday, International Medical Corps delivered 2.5 metric tons of rice, beans, maise, and vegetable oil to the residents of the little community-an action that clearly lifted Marhone's spirits.
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For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
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Paschasius, bishop of Vienne, was warned by an angel to watch on the banks of the Rhône, and so rescued the head and trunk of the soldier-martyr, which had been cast into the river at Agaunum (S. Maurice in Valais), and had floated down -- probably on sounder hydrostatical principles than the 'Floating Martyr' -- through the Lake of
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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Velvety-soft and topped with a pleasing peachy flavour, it is not far off the quality of the white wines produced from the Viognier grape in the northern Rhône, France - and they cost at least £20.
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Sited at the confluence of the Saone and Rhone rivers in Lyons, the futuristic megastructure is conceived as a hybridisation of museum and urban leisure space.
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Richard Mallie from the French "departement" of Bouches-du-Rhone (Number 13) and 230 other
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The Rhone - Alpes province boasts another reason for visiting the area, namely viniculture and gastronomy.
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Today it's a given that the best wines in Burgundy and elsewhere are estate-bottled, that is, produced by the people who grow the grapes, but through the 1920s most of the grapes grown in Burgundy were sold to négotiants who vinified and bottled the finished wine, frequently blending them with heartier wines from the sunny Rhône valley and elsewhere.
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Liverpool Takeover Plan: All You Need To Know About £120m "Rhone Group" (28): Ive heard that they are friends of hicks and gillet, also heard that the last time these 2 got together to buy a team (dont recall who the ...
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The generic Cotes du Rhone appellation was created in 1937 in the Rhone Valley and has grown into one of France's largest and best - known wine brands, producing some 27 million cases annually.
