Francois Villard l'Appel des Sereines Syrah 2022 NET the plants are then shredded

the plants are then shredded by axe and knife and open-air fermented in pine tanks before being twice-distilled in traditional copper stills

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others are more chalky

Vintage variation and cellar-worthy selections

Francois Villard l'Appel des Sereines Syrah 2022 NET the plants are then shreddedThis is Northern Rhone Syrah without the paperwork. Francois Villard trained as a chef, taught himself to make wine, and became one of the region's best; l'Appel des Sereines is his young vine cuvee, drawn from decomposed granite parcels in Chavanay, Ardoix, Saint Michel sur Rhone and Verin real Northern Rhone dirt in every case. Because the vines are young and the plots fall outside the appellation lines, it's bottled simply as Vin de France, which