Origine

Smoked honey, dense, like a New York cheesecake in richness, tang, texture and utter indulgence. Incredible weight and presence for a 12% wine – it's as if it could anchor itself and create calm in a deep-sea storm. Effulgent, radiant with life and luminosity, brimming with citrus-shimmer richness. If you could spill the liquid from a harvest moon rising, I think it might taste like this. Very, very exciting.

Après dix ans d'élevage en cuve enterrée, ce blanc s'ouvre aujourd'hui avec fraîcheur et équilibre. En bouche, la matière, ample et grasse sans excès, est tenue par une agréable salinité, une tension bien dosée et de fins amers en finale. Une très belle réussite, qui ne laissera pas indifférent.

The flagship lees-aged cuvée, this is currently still in tank, and is due to be bottled in March this year. The fruit comes from vines planted in 1944. This is quite lovely on the nose, a real contrast to Signature, with layers of elderflower, waxed pear and fragrant apple blossom notes too. The palate feels very correct, sinewy and seamless at first, then it turns fresh and delineated, the middle infused with fresh minerals, with a very correct endpalate and a finish of fresh, supple, delicately desiccated pear. It develops good energy through the middle, finishing with a mineral flourish, and it has a good length too. A top result.