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Philippe Delesvaux, Coteaux du Layon Anthologie, 1996 (500ml)

Red Wine from Loire, France
by Philippe Delesvaux
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A museum-piece sweet wine, and one of only four Anthologie vintages Philippe Delesvaux ever produced. In four decades, the cuvée 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-nine years on, this is fully mature: quince paste, candied tangerine, pomelo zest, honey, dried apricot, beeswax, deepened by tertiary notes of saffron and roasted nut. The Loire minerality keeps it from ever feeling heavy. A 500ml format for the cellar, or for a long, slow finish to a serious meal.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chenin Blanc

  • Vintage

    1996

  • Size

    500ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

  • Sweetness

    Sweet

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

The classic pairings — foie gras, Roquefort, blue cheeses — but also brilliant on its own as a dessert in a glass. Try with tarte tatin, almond cake, or a wedge of aged Comté.

Tasting Profile

Quince paste, candied tangerine, honey, dried apricot, beeswax, and pomelo zest deepened by saffron and roasted nut. Lavishly sweet but lifted by Loire acidity and chalky minerality. Long, layered, fully resolved.

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