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Wine Description
The Story
This wine has always been popular among the greatest writers and politicians: Napoléon Bonaparte had some bottles delivered weekly at Saint-Hélène during his exile, Charles Baudelaire mentionned it in its famous Les Fleurs du Mal, it was appreciated by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the King of England George IV and the Queen Elizabeth II, but also George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, Nelson Mandela and so on.
Vin de Const...
Wine Information
In 2009 we began to harvest from late January and completed only in late April. These 3 months allowed us to harvest up to 25 different batches that make up the many components that go into the final blend. Each bunch is hand selected and only the ripest and best bunches are chosen. Later in the season, individual raisins are hand picked from the remaining bunches in the vineyards and used to make the essentia, the very heart of the Vin de Con...