Cotes du Rhone Ceps Centenaire La Meme Gramenon (Magnum)

Gramenon are arguably the finest producer of Cotes de Rhone in the South. Their cheaper wines are simple, but expressive - and as you go up in the range, you get close to levels of complexity and soul that you rarely see outside mythical domaines like Rayas and Bonneau. Grenache from 120-year-old vines on sandy soils at Montbrison-sur-Lez, in the northern reaches of the southern Rhône, farmed biodynamically. Philippe Laurent and Michèle Aubéry-Laurent bought the estate in 1978; since Philippe`s death in 1999, Michèle and her son Maxime-François have run it.