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

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.

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

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

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

An abundance of violets and velvet, amid a cooling sensation of a cold spring on a hot day.

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

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

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