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

gracefully tiptoes over your palate

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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