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| | Wine Spectator | Articles | Rhône Valley: The North Edges Out the South |
 | | Some of the wines from these appellations could be among the best that have been made in the past 10 years, according to vintners, but few other appellations enjoyed such success. |
 | | But when the grapes were harvested after the rains, the younger Guigal said, the wines could be mediocre, partly due to rot on the fruit. |
 | | Likewise in Cornas, winemaker-enologist Jean-Luc Colombo harvested grapes of such ripeness in his vineyard that he didn't have to boost the alcohol level through chaptalization (adding sugar during the fermentation, which is legal in the region). |
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