Bonny Doon Vin Gris de Cigare 2024

Grenache in this relatively cool vintage provides the usual olfactorily suspects: wild strawberry, peach, guava and rhubarb and a very discreet scent of white pepper with Cinsault furnishing the elegant candied cherry topnote that chromatically sits atop its vitaceous conjugate. (Mourvedre, at its near homeopathic level, contributes a useful background earthy note.)

Bonny Doon has continued the post-fermentation practice of leaving the wine on its lees to great effect; the wine has a wonderful creaminess and length on the palate in virtue of this enlightened practice.