Let me begin with what is probably the most remarkable Cairanne I have ever tasted Domaine Roche's 2010 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Cairanne La Bousquette. This amazing wine was cropped at 25 hectoliters per hectare and was fashioned from a parcel of old vine Grenache planted in 1870 just after the phylloxera crisis began to destroy vineyards throughout western Europe. It is one of the most extraordinary Cotes du Rhone-Villages one could ever taste. It is a tank-aged blend of 85% Grenache and 15% old Carignan (also from the same time period). Proprietor Roman Roche has hit pay dirt with this full-bodied majestic 2010. It possesses lavish quantities of kirsch black raspberries blackberries licorice pepper and Provencal garrigue. A crushed rock-like minerality is interwoven into this full-bodied astonishingly concentrated wine that should age beautifully for 10-15+ years if you can resist it now.