The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide series is written in collaboration with Club Oenologique, with comprehensive listings of restaurants, hotels, cafés and bars, points of wider cultural interest such as art galleries and museums in France, which wineries you can visit, how to read a Rhône wine list, Rhône winemakers’ favourite restaurants and more.

Matt Walls is a freelance wine writer, consultant and author. He is interested in all areas of wine, and is a contributing editor at Decanter magazine. He specialises in the wines of the Rhône Valley; he is Regional Chair for the Rhône at the Decanter World Wine Awards, edits the Rhône entries for the Oxford Companion to Wine and the World Atlas of Wine, and his latest book, Wines of the Rhône, was shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2022. He is also the founder of events and tour company Rhône Roots (rhoneroots.com).