Wills Wine Syrah “du Plateau” 2024 Region_Sonoma Coast built for density

built for density

Jean "Johnny" Hugel spent three years walking the region with a geologist to help draw the grand cru boundaries

and a faint bitter almond edge on the close

elegant floral zest shines through

Wills Wine Syrah “du Plateau” 2024 Region_Sonoma Coast built for densityThe Land Syrah in the Rhne is normally discussed in terms of slopes: the terraced hillsides of Cte Rtie, the granite wall of Cornas. This wine comes from the other place, the plateau, the flat ground on top of the hills that nobody photographs. Three separate parcels, each at a different altitude with a different exposure, planted on granite and schist. Those are northern Rhne soils, decomposed and sharply draining, and they are what give Syrah its