The kind of Saint-Jo to dig into right away: smoky, layered, lush, and laced with violet, bay leaf, and black olive.

It is a real-deal northern Rhône roasted-slope Syrah that walks the tightrope perfectly between creamy fruit, meaty tannins, and fresh spine.

From high-altitude slopes above the Rhône river, this Syrah exhibits remarkable purity and grace.

Like eating lemon curd at a party that Renoir might have painted—think something like Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette.

Amid the lush fruit runs a delicate current of minerality that lingers on the tongue, as if the wine cascaded down a granite slope on its way into your glass.

With a nose of gunflint and suave Marsanne fruit, it has length and finesse; extremely limited availability

Exuberant, dark-fruited aromatics melding with earthy undertones of bitter cacao. Delicious now, or mind-melting in ten years.

A thick perfume of dry-aged meat, smoke, and violets preface a wine that is powerful, but in perfect proportion.

Elegant blue and black fruit abound, but here it mingles with a hint of sanguinity and some dusty tannin.

Majestically dark and brooding Cornas, layered with aromas of herbs and mint. Extremely limited availability