Today’s Feraud Brunel 2010 Cotes du Rhone Villages Cairanne is a very balanced and well structured wine.

A GMS (Grenache, Mourvedre and Syrah) that is made from vines that range in age from 60 to 104 years old, this wine is plump and ripe, giving it a flavor and feel profile that make the wine more approachable and accessible to the American wine drinker.

We’ll enjoy ours now, while holding a few bottles back for the next few years. If you are patient, you’ll likely be rewarded with softer fruit.