Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO 38% Chardonnay and 11% Meunier

38% Chardonnay and 11% Meunier

Tiny production wine in a small format bottle

buttery on the palate with a tense minerality

It is delightful with a fresh mint finish

Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO 38% Chardonnay and 11% MeunierThe 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