Château Jolys Jurançon Vendanges Tardives

A wine unto itself. After all those years of slumber, this now has a more Marsala/Madeira (even Pedro Ximinez) vibe, with a deep bronze colour, smells of fig jam, raisins and preserved fruit. Very high sugar, but luckily - with that famed wickedly high Manseng acidity - this is never cloying, and the whole 500ml could be finished at one sitting. Whether the producer expected it to be consumed in such a state is moot, as it was an excellent, …