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

its baked apple fruit still youthfully toasty

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

lavender and wild fennel aromas

the palate grows in austerity

Suerte Marques, Valle Orotava Ciruelo other_regions Rene Rostaing is one ofThe 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