Les Deplaude de Tartaras Collines Rhodaniennes Syrah Le Vent se Leve 2021 SF Chronicle More flesh than the 2017

More flesh than the 2017

a serious streak of salt

This 12-year-old Single Malt Scotch Whisky has been double cask matured in both European and American oak to enhance the distinctively rich and robust character that makes Mortlach whiskies legendary

28% Malbec

Les Deplaude de Tartaras Collines Rhodaniennes Syrah Le Vent se Leve 2021 SF Chronicle More flesh than the 2017Anne 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