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Bonny Doon Vineyard Le Cigare Volant was created in 1984 by the winery’s founder, Randall Grahm. He was one of the earliest California winemakers to embrace the wines of France’s southern Rhone region. His Le Cigare Volant (The Flying Cigar) is a blend of syrah, grenache, cinsault, mourvèdre and carignane. Apropos of his renegade style, Grahm named the wine after an absurd 1954 decree by the village of Chateauneuf du Pape forbidding flying saucers – cigares volants – to land there. The village has remained free of UFOs, Grahm is still “The Rhone Ranger,” and a $36 bottle of the 2010 vintage is delicious.

This article appears in September 2014.

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Glenn is wine director at Annie Gunn’s and The Smokehouse Market. He has been a member of the Missouri Wine and Grape Board for 30 years, taught at St. Louis Community College for 15 years and is a certified...