its baked apple fruit still youthfully toasty

this is certainly pretty but it’s not deep

This is aromatically quite similar to the Beaumonts but more restrained and perhaps a bit cooler as well

The very punchy and much more mineral-inflected medium weight flavors possess first-rate delineation as well as fine length on the balanced and saline finish

Rene Rostaing is one of the most masterful growers and bottlers of Cote Rotie

Suerte Marques, Valle Orotava Ciruelo other_regions its baked apple fruit stillThe 2018 El Ciruelo could very well be the finest vintage of this single vineyard bottling, from a plot on very poor soils that has very balanced vines that usually give the more complex and deeper wine from the winery. It's a north facing plot at 480 to 520 meters in altitude pruned in the cordn trenzado system unique to La Orotava. It fermented with 100% full clusters, no temperature control, indigenous yeasts and a 27 day maceration time. It