"2023 Costières de Nîmes “Galets Rouges”- Château Mourgues du Grès The 2023 Galets Rouges bottling from Mourgues du Grès is an excellent wine, coming in at an even fourteen percent octane and offering up impressive complexity on both the nose and palate. The cépages here is roughly sixty percent syrah, twenty-five percent grenache and five 74 percent each of mourvèdre, carignan and marselan, with the carignan coming from very old vines. The wine tips the scales at fourteen percent alcohol in this vintage and delivers a deep and complex nose of cassis, pepper, hung game, garrigue, bonfire, coffee bean and a superb base of stony soil tones. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely sense of generosity already on the attack. It shows fine depth at the core, lovely soil undertow and grip, moderate tannins and lovely balance on the impressive finish. This is certainly delicious already, but a few years in the cellar to soften up those backend tannins a bit more will only improve its pleasure quotient. It will age very well indeed and is an absolutely stunning value!"