Robert Parker Jr., a Châteauneuf lover, has been quoted writing: "This [2007] is the greatest vintage I've ever tasted in the southern Rhone." He called the 2007’s “a truly historic and profoundly great vintage.” This vintage has received many, many accolades not just from the wine critics such as Parker and Jancis Robinson, but from the winemakers themselves from such esteemed producers as Rasteau, Perrin, and Guigal. Similarities have been made to the outstanding 1999 and