Côtes du Rhône & IGP

The appellation controlées have not really caught up with the quality of the wines coming out of sites designated mere Côtes du Rhône, or worse, have no appellation at all and are sold under the most generic geographic indication labels. In the northern Rhône, Syrah and Viognier from these sites around the famous villages can be astonishing value despite being, on the face of it, quite expensive for such lowly nomenclature.