Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml) 121625OFFER working exclusively with estate-grown fruit

working exclusively with estate-grown fruit since 1997

three separate distillations of spices and bitter peels of Curacao oranges blended with brandy and Ferrand cognac

Slight sweetness keeps the wine pillowy

and quiet depth

Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml) 121625OFFER working exclusively with estate-grown fruitA museum piece sweet wine, and one of only four Anthologie vintages Philippe Delesvaux ever produced. In four decades, the cuve 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