Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax This is the everyday entry

This is the everyday entry point to one of Puligny-Montrachet's most exacting growers

A cult Barolo made the uncompromising way: Cappellano farms tiny quantities

Marsannay village from a rocky lieu-dit

Terroir: From the Clos du Château

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and bottled with minimal sulfur

Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax This is the everyday entryA 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