Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 spirits-template 100% Gamay and made without

100% Gamay and made without sulfur

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

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

Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 spirits-template 100% Gamay and made withoutThe 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