Given a little time to breathe on opening, this is a complex, idiosyncratic wine with lots to explore. The mouthwatering acid cuts the palate keenly, with cherry, blackcurrant and raspberry liquorice in its wake. Wild-edged and raw, there is much on display to appeal to those who appreciate the work of the likes of Domaine du Mazel and La Cave des Nomades. Find out more.

A delicate maceration process lends the wine a golden amber hue, leaving tannins that are chalky, dialled-back, yet deeply integrated. Citrus oils, salty apricot and sweet almond melds harmoniously with herbal aromatics and a distinctive resinous quality. A captivating wine with layers of complexity and detail. Find out more.

Beautifully concentrated, with a dense, fleshy quality that is cut through with tense acids, providing crystalline clarity. Abundant with mouthwatering tropical fruits, salt, spices and cleansing bitters, the unwavering length to the finish tells you all you need to know about the quality on display here. A really special example of the varietal. Find out more.

This is resolutely a red wine, despite 50% of the grapes being white, such is the influence of the Syrah. The Chardonnay and Viognier keep things delightfully silky and fluid, but the red grape provides a huge aromatic lift, that somehow seems to carry itself through into the palate, which is dense with dark blackcurrant fruits and juicy, saline black olive. Find out more.

Paulette’s debut cuvée from her own small parcel of 50 year-old Gamay vines, planted over sandy decomposed granite and quartz at around 500 meters in the hills outside Annonay. This is in many ways her signature wine, and offers a beautiful expression of the extreme north of the Ardèche. Find out more.