The 2008 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Les Signargues displays plum sauce and sweet cherry and berry fruit along with some fresh herbs and earth. It is best drunk over the next year.
(Not yet released)
Pierre-Henri Morel, who works with Michel Chapoutier, has his own estate in the southern Rhone, and these wines all emerge from his holdings and/or purchases. Obviously, the 2008s have to take a backseat to the 2009 bottlings, but I thought the wines fared well for such a tough vintage.
Importer: Paterno Imports, Lake Bluff, IL; tel. (847) 604-8900