Here's a fully mature, smooth, very ripe southern Rhone with a ripe sweet nose of plum, marzipan, licorice, dried...

Restanques is a Provencal term to describe the retaining stone walls creating gravelly terraces common to the region....

Here is what you would call a highly parochial wine, earthy, notably reeking of wet earth, stone and forest floor....

A bold, chewy, concentrated Cairanne, with dried/raisined fruit, old wet wood, and chewy tannins, quite swarthy and...