Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO and citrus zest

and citrus zest

Deirdre Heekin is the most important pioneer of serious Vermont wine

38% Chardonnay and 11% Meunier

Tiny production wine in a small format bottle

famed for the best terroir in the world for sugar cane production

Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO and citrus zestThe 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