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

The 2022 vintage drinks like something even more ethereal than you’d expect from a southern red.

A relatively rare beast, Serge’s blanc is a ripe, honey-infused cornucopia of fruit.

Elevation and abundant limestone combine to give taut, high-toned wines with delicate floral aromas and stimulating mineral freshness.

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.

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

This bears a rich bouquet of wild strawberry, flowers, garrigue, and sweet spices, culminating in a long, stony finale.

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

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

This Gigondas—densely concentrated and deeply opaque—is more refined than meets the eye.