Les Deplaude de Tartaras Collines Rhodaniennes Syrah Le Vent se Leve 2021 SF Chronicle on clay-and-schist soils that catch

on clay-and-schist soils that catch the salt off the Mediterranean

The cider is completely dry and remains undisgorged

More flesh than the 2017

picked early for freshness

a local strain of Gamay that behaves differently here than it does in Beaujolais: darker

Les Deplaude de Tartaras Collines Rhodaniennes Syrah Le Vent se Leve 2021 SF Chronicle on clay-and-schist soils that catchAnne and Pierre Andre Deplaude were dairy farmers first. When milk prices collapsed in the early 2000s, they converted part of their land at Tartaras, in the hills between Lyon and the northern Rhone, over to vines, and it turned out they had a serious gift for Syrah. Le Vent se Leve is 100% Syrah and unoaked, from the Collines Rhodaniennes, the IGP that wraps around Cote Rotie and quietly turns out the same peppery, savory character with far less