E. Guigal : Côtes du Rhône 2022

A fruit-driven and juicy Cotes-du-Rhone with cassis, dark cherries and mild spices on the nose. It's medium-bodied with slightly rustic tannins. Peppery and firm finish. Drink now.

A gutsy, ripe style, with density and grippy, graphite-edged tannins holding firm a core of strappy cherry, plum and peppercorn. Dry on the finish, with plumes of alder smoke. Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah. Drink now. 300,000 cases made, 44,000 cases imported.

Black plum and cocoa-dusted, white-button-mushroom aromas bump against raspberry and black tea, on the nose. The palate is fulsome in body yet reserved in flavor with red fruit riding all the way to the finish that is made more complex by velvety tannins that demure.