Francois Villard l'Appel des Sereines Syrah 2022 CALIOTHER The wine opens with aromas

The wine opens with aromas of ripe orchard fruit

Sensations du Nord is their Syrah from vines on the slopes just outside the appellation boundary

rich peat smoke

The result is even more complex than previous releases

the orchards turn white with blossoms

Francois Villard l'Appel des Sereines Syrah 2022 CALIOTHER The wine opens with aromasThis 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