Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml)
A museum-piece sweet wine, and one of only four Anthologie vintages Philippe Delesvaux ever produced. In four decades, the cuvée was bottled just four times — 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2010 — only when botrytis cooperated at the highest possible level. The 1996 is fully botrytized Chenin Blanc from Coteaux du Layon, reaching the kind of sugar concentration (around 530 g/L of residual) that puts it in conversation with the great sweet wines of the world. Twenty-nine years on, this is fully mature: quince paste, candied tangerine, pomelo zest, honey, dried apricot, beeswax, deepened by tertiary notes of saffron and roasted nut. The Loire minerality keeps it from ever feeling heavy. A 500ml format for the cellar, or for a long, slow finish to a serious meal.
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A museum-piece sweet wine, and one of only four Anthologie vintages Philippe Delesvaux ever produced. In four decades, the cuvée was bottled just four times — 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2010 — only when botrytis cooperated at the highest possible level. The 1996 is fully botrytized Chenin Blanc from Coteaux du Layon, reaching the kind of sugar concentration (around 530 g/L of residual) that puts it in conversation with the great sweet wines of the world. Twenty-nine years on, this is fully mature: quince paste, candied tangerine, pomelo zest, honey, dried apricot, beeswax, deepened by tertiary notes of saffron and roasted nut. The Loire minerality keeps it from ever feeling heavy. A 500ml format for the cellar, or for a long, slow finish to a serious meal.
