Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 limit-1-per-customer and together they make a

and together they make a wine that's insanely easy to drink and crazy versatile at the table

twelve days on the skins in small wood

under the guidance of winemaker Jim Clendenen

structured wines that needed decades to come around

A great way to taste Rhys's farming philosophy applied to a different cool-climate terroir

Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 limit-1-per-customer and together they make aClos de la Roilette is a longtime Flatiron favorite Fleurie, and the Cuvee Tardive (labeled here Vendange Tardive) is its serious bottling. Fernand Coudert bought the run down estate in 1967; his son Alain has made the wine since the 1980s. The clos sits on an unusual band of clay rich soil that gives a wine closer to Moulin a Vent than typical granite Fleurie. The Tardive comes from the oldest vines, around 80 years old, and the name signals a wine