Paul Jaboulet Aine Gigondas Pierre Aiguille 2017

Another solid négociant effort, the 2017 Gigondas Pierre Aiguille combines hints of Mexican chocolate and red raspberries in a full-bodied, silky-textured wine. It's ripe yet chewy, with attractive hints of orange zest and licorice on the long finish. It's 80% Grenache, with 10% each Mourvèdre and Syrah.

Plummy cassis and black-cherry flavors are rich and rounded in this open-knit blend of 80% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah sourced from stony red-clay terraces. It's concentrated in fruit but seductively earthen too, offering hints of dusty mineral, smoke and peppery spice. The long finish is marked by ripe, fine-tipped tannins. At peak now–2027.

Supple and open-knit, offering juicy blackberry and bitter cherry flavors and a hint of vanilla on the back half. Round, even tannins frame a long, smoky finish that leaves a subtly sweet cherry note behind.