And all those new Rhone-style wines from the West Coast?

Rhone-style wines are flourishing in California.

Founded in 1995, Curtis Winery is a small winery which produces Rhône-style wines.

With some exceptions, the demand for Rhone-style wines appears to have slowed.

The result is a classic full-bodied Rhone-style wine with smokiness, black pepper and spice in the bouquet.

Preston blends it with a true syrah to make an exceptionally intense Rhone-style wine.

Beginning in the mid-80's, a group of young California wine makers devoted their skills to producing Rhone-style wines, including syrah.

With characteristic American verve, they called themselves the Rhone Rangers, and within a few years they had begun to win awards for their Rhone-style wines.

Rhone-style wines, for example, may not yet qualify as popular, but they can no longer be dismissed as exotic.

Then, in the late 1980's, thanks in part to Californian winemakers, the world was turned on to rich, beefy, Rhone-style wines.