{"product_id":"chateau-la-tour-blanche-1961","title":"Chateau La Tour Blanche Sauternes 1961 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone remembers 1961 for the reds. Sauternes had a good year too, quieter and far less discussed: enough autumn humidity for noble rot to take hold on the Sémillon, and enough sun afterwards to concentrate what it left behind. Sweet wine from the vintage now costs a small fraction of what the Médoc First Growths do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa Tour Blanche has belonged to the French state for more than a century, bequeathed on condition that it be run as a viticultural school. Students still work the harvest, going through the rows in successive passes and taking only the berries botrytis has shrivelled to raisins. It is the first-listed of the Sauternes First Growths after Yquem, a detail from the 1855 classification that the estate has never once stopped mentioning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt sixty-five, a well-kept Sauternes is usually deep amber and still sweet, with the fruit gone over to dried apricot, caramel and orange marmalade, and the acidity holding the whole thing upright.\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 1961\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 Sweet whites of this class are the great survivors, and a 1961 Sauternes is more likely than most old wine to still be drinking, though we sell it as a collectible without a guarantee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e A sixty-fifth birthday present for someone with a sweet tooth, and one of the few bottles from this legendary year that does not run into four figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e The merchant grades it good for its age with no fault noted; we check the fill, cork and capsule ourselves and send photographs before charging you.\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":58326652059992,"sku":"ANNO-000736","price":520.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/Chateau-La-Tour-Blanche-Sauternes-1961-AOC-075l.jpg?v=1790689482","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/products\/chateau-la-tour-blanche-1961","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}