Six producers to watch

and daughter Bénédicte at this classy domaine. He terms his L’Estévenas a more northern Rhône-style wine, and the Cuvée Jean de Verde more southern, a bearer of refined strength. His achievement of smooth tannins in 2013, when many wines were edgy and dusty, and the enjoyable plumpness of the Grenache in 2014, when the crop quality was uneven, both point to the attention to detail here. while the 2012 is a Nordic-styled, slow gainer of a wine. His oaked 2011 Pinarius is weighty but lucid – a good effort on a one-off wine.