Starting with the 2018 Saint Joseph Domaine, this beauty boasts a deep purple hue as well as a rounded, sexy, mouthfilling style that carries fabulous black and blue fruits, peppery herbs, licorice, and spice-driven aromas and flavors. This ripe, fleshy, sexy Saint Joseph is ideal for drinking over the coming 10-12 years.

Deep ruby. Expansive blackberry and cherry compote flavors are complemented by hints of exotic spices, incense and olive. Round and fleshy but energetic as well, offering ripe black and blue fruit liqueur and spicecake flavors that are underscored by a vein of juicy acidity. A smoky note appears on the gently tannic finish, which hangs on with very good, spicy tenacity. -- Josh Raynolds