Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO and an intense mineral finish

and an intense mineral finish

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Patrick & Christophe Bonnefond Syrah Sensations du Nord 2021 TBO and an intense mineral finishThe 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