Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml) so041626 30 under 30 offer with a brisk gentle spritz

with a brisk gentle spritz and a tart

40% Mourvèdre

one of a family of varieties that spread throughout the Americas starting in the 16th century

24 months in large Slavonian oak casks

and Bruno was the first to bottle under the family name after the war

Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml) so041626 30 under 30 offer with a brisk gentle spritzA 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