Positively youthful compared with the 1953 and quite reticent on the nose. The palate is wonderful though, huge amounts of deep honey notes, with the sweetness balanced by a mouth-watering acidity, that’s very special, but amazingly young still for a 50 year old wine. Beautiful now, but even better in the future I’d venture.
Chris Pollington - Private Account Manager

Wonderfully elegant, this trips along on the lightest of feet, and there’s a lot here all supremely integrated with a delicate, finely poised toffee apple finish.  Great wine.
Tom Cave, Cellar Plan Manager

Always a vintage which makes a Wine Merchants eyebrow rise, it would seem that the fine weather of 1961 wasn’t confined to Bordeaux, if this bottle is anything to go by the Loire also faired well, to say the very least. One of my favourite wines of the tasting this almost has everything. Creamy yellow baked fruit in perfect balance to the taut refreshing grapefruit notes along with a lively structure which actually has more time to go. Drinking beautifully now but if this was in my cellar I might be tempted to leave it a few more years, to 2030 potentially.
Gary Owen, Account Manager