2020 Maison Stephan Cote Rotie Coteaux de Tupin Rhone, France Corte Sant'Alda Columbia Gorge

Columbia Gorge

the wines express more varietal fruit with expansive mid-palate flavors than the soil-driven minerality of Mount Eden estate wines

In an epic quest through Italy’s 20 regions that takes readers from the steep hills of Valle d’Aosta to the near-tropical climates of Sicily

Personality: Both oxidative and reductive

6 acres from the middle of the vineyard to the lower wall and the average vine age is 40 years old

2020 Maison Stephan Cote Rotie Coteaux de Tupin Rhone, France Corte Sant'Alda Columbia GorgeThe Cteaux de Tupin comes exclusively from 100% Serine vines, an older variety of Syrah found only around Cte Rtie that has lower yields but incredible quality. Part of the vineyard was planted in 1941, which is blended together with the Serine vines that Jean Michel planted in the late 1990s.