Domaine Les Pallieres, Gigondas Terrasses du Diable, 2011 SO112025 Guiberteau and sweet spice laced through

and sweet spice laced through a silky

and deeply satisfying from release

A magnum of Roberto Conterno's Cascina Francia from the famously hot 2003 summer

in the cool Santa Lucia Highlands

no-makeup Burgundy—elegant

Domaine Les Pallieres, Gigondas Terrasses du Diable, 2011 SO112025 Guiberteau and sweet spice laced throughA great Gigondas from Les Pallieres, the storied estate the Brunier family of Vieux Telegraphe revived alongside Kermit Lynch in 1998. Terrasse du Diable comes from the highest, coolest, steeply terraced plots on stony limestone scree from the Dentelles de Montmirail, between roughly 250 and 400 meters. It's the more powerful of the estate's two cuvees, mostly old vine Grenache rounded out with Mourvedre and Clairette, aged in large foudre and bottled