Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax Terroir: From the Clos du

Terroir: From the Clos du Château

third-generation Danilo Quazzolo now farms and even designs the labels himself

bottled with zero dosage and made in tiny quantities

so the wine feels electric rather than feral

Chateau d'Yquem, Sauternes, 1955 SO061826 Pax Terroir: From the Clos duA 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