Some of the best wines to look out for in the week ahead

The factors that made a wine historically famous and desired were often as much to do with geography as flavour.

The port of Bordeaux was a major factor in popularising the wines of that region, while it took until the latter part of the 20th century before the equally fine wines of the Rhone became similarly sought after.

The Rhone river rises in the Swiss Alps but it is the section south of Lyon that interests us this week.