Fresh, ripe and well-defined, with raspberry, bitter cherry and plum puree notes that race through, carried by a fine minerally spine while savory and sanguine details infuse the finish. Drink now through 2030.

Vivid ruby. Displays ripe, smoke-accented cherry and dark berry scents that are complemented by hints of licorice, game and cracked pepper. Juicy and broad in the mouth, offering appealingly jammy red and blue fruit liqueur and baking spice flavors and a salty touch of olive. Finishes long and smooth, with well-knit tannins and repeating pepper and cherry notes.

From a difficult vintage for the region due to hail, the 2019 Crozes-Hermitage Les Meysonniers is nevertheless a terrific success and has a pretty, elegant, seamless style as well as terrific purity in its darker fruits as well notes of pepper, violets, and sappy flowers.