Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 still macabeo Built to evolve over a

Built to evolve over a decade or more

Now 11 hectares across Neive

The same wine—Ferrando's elegant

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

offering a firmer

Clos de la Roilette (Coudert), Fleurie Vendange Tardive, 2014 still macabeo Built to evolve over 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