Wine with Leslie: Digging up wines from Southern France - rugby country
This week, Leslie Williams takes a punt on wine from rugby country
Ireland’s victory over France in the Six Nations Rugby had me digging out wines from Southern France where Rugby is strongest. I soon found myself reminiscing about trips to Lyon and the Southern Rhône and the taste of Pâte en Croûte in a Lyon Bouchon, and those wondrous veal sweetbreads I ate near Tain l’Hermitage in 2004.
Lyon is a true gastronomic city with excellent affordable restaurants and the city where the Saône joins the Rhône to create the fast flowing river that moulded the hill of Hermitage and the hills that grow Syrah and Viognier for Côte Rôtie, Cornas and Condrieu.
