Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 spirits-template The 95% Mourvèdre blend (with

The 95% Mourvèdre blend (with Syrah and Cinsault) comes from vines on shallow

and its Joseph Vaudan cellar turns out serious bottles alongside the coursework

100% Gamay and made without sulfur

From the producer: The 2020 Affinités Chardonnay opens with citrus blossom

this ensemble bottling has flavors of licorice

Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 spirits-template The 95% Mourvèdre blend (withThe steep granite slopes of the northern Rhone make some of the world's greatest Syrah, and they make very little of it. Patrick and Christophe Bonnefond farm a ten hectare domaine, six or seven hectares of it on the hill of Cote Rotie, and in recent years they have pulled back hard on new oak in pursuit of a purer, more Burgundian transparency. Sensations du Nord is their Syrah from vines on the slopes just outside the appellation boundary, bottled