Domaine de la Bouïssiere, Beaumes de Venise, Southern Rhône, France 2021

80% Grenache, 20% Syrah on clay-limestone soil

Old-school full and lush, full of dark berry fruit and brambles.

Domaine de le Bouïssiere is run by the Faravel brothers Thierry and Gilles, whose father Antonin started working for Pierre Amadieu in 1942, one of the great old houses at the time. Antonin is most remembered as planting the most mountain vines in the Gigondas area in the 1960s.

Today the Faravels farm 9 hectares in the Col du Cayron section of Gigondas, as well as another 11 hectares between the Beaumes-de-Venise, Vacqueyras, and Côtes-du-Rhône appellations.