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You’d probably gravitate to other soft, red blends. Châteauneuf-du-Pape would be be another French wine to try as it’s a smaller appellation in the Cotes du Rhône region. Minervois comes from a neighboring region in France and often at lower price points.
GSMs are one of my all time favorite blends. Coastal Pinots are a good alternative to your taste. Belle Glos is fantastic and Eternally Silenced from The Prisoner family of wines are also soft and light wines you might try.
Echo comments on GSMs. Not as pronounced as cab blends, nor as tannic as zin based blends.
Rhône’s are generally Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre (GSM) blends and different classified areas in the region focus more on certain of those varietals. Northern Rhône’s (st joseph, cote rotie, hermitage, cornas etc) tend to be heavier on the syrah and southern Rhône’s are more Grenache weighted (chateneuf du pape, gigondas, vacqueyras etc). Wines from these cru villages will all be significantly more expensive than your more widely available CDP wines that are silent to the village on the label, but are generally much higher quality and more expressive of the underlying varietals.
Moving outside the region but staying old world - tons of good options for CDP adjacent wines coming out of Spain - look for things labeled garnacha. Priorat is one of the better regions to look for in Spain for wines in this style, but you’re not limited to just that region. Spanish wines tend to be some of the best value plays for quality old words wines. Laya is a super affordable Grenache blend that is pretty widely available.
Going New World - lot of Rhone style blends are coming out of Paso Robles in CA (although you see more kitchen sink blending with cab and zin getting added to the mix like The Prisoner). Generally speaking old world will tend to be a little more restrained on their use of new oak barrel aging, so new world will be a little more in your face, especially when there isn’t much age on the bottle. If you can get your hands on anything from Denner Vineyards, do it - some of my favorite new world syrahs come from them. Lot of great Syrah coming out of Washington as well - K Vintners makes great juice.
Australia also puts out a lot of GSM blends - wide range of quality and prices. Worth noting that Shiraz in Australia is the same Syrah grape varietal - just Australians being Australian. D’arenberg is one of my favorite Aussie producers - some very affordable blends like their stump jump bottling and some high quality more expensive single varietal bottlings as well. Penfolds RWT is world class Syrah, but you’ll have to pay for it.
Cotes de Rhône red is Grenache blend so you could go to your local store and look for them. Honestly taste and price point you can’t beat Guigal Cotes de Rhône
Agreed on guigal. Their entry bottling is very drinkable and they also put out some of the most famed Rhone bottlings out theirs (the la la wines).