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Roger Morris writes about wine, food and travel for a variety of publications including Beverage Media, Town & Country, Details, Drinks Business and Wine Enthusiast. Morris lives in Pennsylvania and travels frequently to the world's major wine regions.

The Wrong Side of the Rhône

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
6 min read
It is a drizzly afternoon in late February when Stéphane Ogier drives me in his Range Rover to the top of a hillside overlooking the Rhône River and the small town of Seyssuel just north of Vienne. We bump along rutted, muddy farm lanes at the edge of a plateau

Super Bordeaux? Bordelais experiment with Syrah

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Thomas Duroux, winemaker at Château Palmer, likes to add some young Syrah wine from the Rhone to that made at his Margaux estate wine to construct a special cuvée. So does Caroline Frey down the road at Château La Lagune. Consultants/winemakers Michel and Dany Rolland have experimented with the combination on

Rías Baixas: Spain’s Little Green Giant

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
4 min read
Using a patchwork system of thousands of growers, Rias Baixas makes certain you are never without a glass of Albariño. It is the third evening of my recent tour of Rías Baixas, and there is again a gentle drizzle as we walk the narrow, ancient streets of Pontevedra en route to

Cruising the Wine Islands Of the Southwest of France

Roger Morris
Features
10 min read
Think of the area’s 18 appellations as an archipelago of isolated vinous enclaves. In many ways, France’s Southwest wine region makes little sense. Few of its 18 individual appellations – 12 AOPs and 6 IGPs – barely touch each other. Instead, they are isolated by buffers of woodlands or vast

Virginia’s Millionaire Winegrowers

Roger Morris
Features
4 min read
For those of us who were writing about wine at the time, it was a surprising, even humorous-sounding, development.  The Italians were coming to Virginia to make wine. The year was 1976, and we had already been shocked once that season.  Napa Valley (with some help from Sonoma grapes) had