Vgnerons du Mont Ventoux Cuvee des 3 Messes Basses Ventoux, 2018

If you follow this blog, you know that this is one of my all-time favorites--an old-style Southern Rhone produced by a coop with produce from excellent vineyards and matured in concrete vats.

Medium deep crimson, some bricking at rim. The wine is made for drinking within the first five years, and this bottle is fully mature and drinking beautifully right now. Ripe scents of strawberries, herbs and spice. Good fruit concentration. 60% Grenache, 20% Carignan and 20% Syrah. Black pepper and spice on the lovely ripe fruit finish.