Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax gracefully tiptoes over your palate

gracefully tiptoes over your palate

Marsannay village from a rocky lieu-dit

so the wine feels electric rather than feral

The 2018 blend

Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax gracefully tiptoes over your palateA genuinely old bottle of the greatest name in sweet wine. This is Yquem from 1955, a very good Sauternes vintage now seventy one years old, and time has turned it pure amber. Yquem is the sole Premier Cru Superieur of the 1855 classification, a rank above the first growths, made by harvesting botrytized berries grape by grape across multiple passes through the vineyard for microscopic yields. A well kept old Yquem like this trades primary fruit for