Vin de Paille

Oof, unexpected — seriously good sweet wine. Concentrated apricot jam (the kind where you actually feel the fibers), caramel, a touch of acid-sweets candy, wildflower herbs and honey. A whisper of VA too. But the point isn’t the sweetness — it’s the palate: all that weight propped up by proper acidity, the VA lifting everything, structure and length holding it together. Lush, properly built, surprisingly refined.