Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 still macabeo offering a firmer

offering a firmer

grown on clay-limestone and gravel soils from vines averaging around 30 years

The same wine—Ferrando's elegant

with the Geoffray family tending steep slopes of volcanic blue granite that give this cru its signature depth and minerality

Now 11 hectares across Neive

Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 still macabeo offering a firmerClos 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