Domaine de la Ferme St. Martin Beaumes-de-Venise St-Martin

The La Ferme Saint-Martin Beaumes-de-Venises wines offer terrific value seemingly every year. Bio farming, good terroir expression, and vivid fruit seem to be hallmarks. And the 2019 Constancia has all of these in spades. The robe is a dark ruby verging on purple. The nose shows a bit of funk on opening but this blows off to reveal bruised blackberry, Italian plum, violets, and garrigue with just a hint of vine smoke (h/t John Gilman for that coinage). The palate …