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

The 25 year is something truly special with a wonderful balance of saline and smoke

he allows its oxidative richness to shine

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

and balanced with just enough sweetness—it’s an amaro that favors roundness over aggression

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