1959 Loire

Similar strange nose to the 1957 Haut Lieu Demi-Sec, maybe it’s the decade! This again blows off to reveal a honey and caramel nose reminding me of sugar cane honey I’ve had from eastern Andalucía, near Granada.
A real beauty on the palate, all in place and all as it should be, plenty of rich honey fruit, mouth-filling sweetness and beautifully balanced with perfect acidity, deep, long and delightful. Almost as good as the 1947.
Chris Pollington - Private Account Manager

Extremely dark in colour, the colour of caramel I dip apples in on Bonfire Night in fact. The toffee apple note appears on the nose too, but the palate is extraordinarily complex. Interwoven marzipan, sweet apricot and a whole variety of yellow stone fruit stride elegantly across the palate. Darker, more concentrated and sweeter than the 1961 Clos de Bourg this 1959 tries to make you think it is a big brute of a wine which is dead set on knocking you over with intensity and richness, but it’s just too refined and elegant to do that. It’ll tap you on the shoulder and ask you to have another glass, if you wouldn’t mind awfully, Sir.
Gary Owen, Account Manager