This is about as quaffable as the region’s rouges get.

This festive sparkling wine is vinified following the ancient tradition of one of the most gorgeous corners of France, where small hills grow into small mountains on the flanks of the Alps.

Stony and smoky, and full of garrigue and black cherry, it is an epic wine that opens up wonderfully now.

There’s a gentle veil of minerality, and the nose is expansive, making way for notes that are more spiced than fruity.

Deep, concentrated, and refreshingly saline, this is like great Cornas with Mediterranean influences.

Clairette, an unsung hero of the south, is the main grape here, undoubtedly one of many key elements to this singular wine.

If Télégramme is more about fruit than stones, it is still undeniably Châteauneuf, expressing the nobility of carefully farmed Grenache from the Rhône’s finest terroirs.

A pure Syrah bottling offering wild flavors of the Provençal countryside gently wrapped in a thick coat of tooth-staining deep purple fruit.

It’s a gem, and you won’t be disappointed.

The flavors are mostly deep and dark—stones, licorice, black olive, and blackberry—but the frame is lithe.