Domaine Gassier Michel Gassier Nostre Païs 2020 750ml

As always, the 2020 Costières De Nîmes Nostre Païs is all about elegance and finesse as opposed to power and opulence. A blend of 60% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, 15% Syrah, and the rest Clairette, it has a spicy, red and black-fruited, leather, and dried flower-driven bouquet as well as medium-bodied richness and depth on the palate. With fine tannins and a terrific sense of purity and elegance, enjoy bottles over the coming 4–6 years. It’s a year-in, year-out, smoking value. (Jeb Dunnuck)

A rustic, old-school style, with plum and cherry leather elements wrapped in a robe of toasted cedar. Gains depth from earthy notes of wet leaves and wild herbs, with salty minerality and drying tannins on the finish. Grenache, Mourvedre, Syrah and Carignan. Drink now. 1,300 cases made, 350 cases imported. (Kristen Bieler)