{"product_id":"chateau-la-tour-blanche-1947","title":"Chateau La Tour Blanche Sauternes 1947 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Iffla, a financier who signed himself Osiris, left Château La Tour Blanche to the French state on his death in 1907, on one condition: that it be run as a school teaching viticulture and winemaking. It still is. The estate was ranked first among the Premiers Crus of Sauternes in 1855, immediately behind Yquem, and the wine has been made by staff and students together ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1947 is the vintage collectors know by name. A blazing summer pushed sugars to levels the cellars of the day struggled to control; for red Bordeaux that heat caused real trouble, but in Sauternes, where the whole aim is concentration, it was a gift. The pickers went through the vineyard repeatedly, taking only berries the noble rot had shrivelled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottles from 1947 are now genuinely scarce rather than merely old. Expect dark amber, the sweetness settled into dried apricot and old orange peel, and a wine that has been in glass longer than most people reading this have been alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château La Tour Blanche\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1947\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sauternes AOC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 75cl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bordeaux, France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sweet or fortified\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it is likely to be now.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Sauternes First Growth of this age is usually still standing rather than dead, but at seventy-nine years it is sold as a collectible piece with no promise about what is in the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e Suits a seventy-ninth birthday, or a bottle bought a year early and put away for the eightieth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Graded good overall, with corrosion on the metal capsule that covers the cork — very common on bottles of this era, and cosmetic rather than proof that anything has seeped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bought to order from a professional European merchant. We check fill, label and capsule when the bottle reaches us and photograph it before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in 7 to 10 working days, tracked. Transit cover can be added at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold as a collectible item, as seen. No guarantee is given on drinkability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--anno-tpl-3--\u003e","brand":"Château La Tour Blanche","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58326648258904,"sku":"ANNO-000735","price":920.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/Chateau-La-Tour-Blanche-Sauternes-1947-AOC-075l.jpg?v=1790689381","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/products\/chateau-la-tour-blanche-1947","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}