Chateau d’Yquem, 1er Supérieur G.C.C, 1855 Sauternes 1.5L 2007 domaine-vincent-delaporte Makipai Wines is a partnership

Makipai Wines is a partnership between two good friends who needed an ongoing excuse to get together and chat about music (mainly punk-think Stiff Little Fingers and The Clash) and football (mainly about the five minutes when Newcastle United were good)

smooth non-alcoholic shiraz with grapes sourced from Langhorne Creek

This single vineyard wine retains the pure citrus character of our other ries lings but with a fresh green melon character not found in our other wines

grown on small parcels scattered around Agios Panteleimonas

Chateau d’Yquem, 1er Supérieur G.C.C, 1855 Sauternes 1.5L 2007 domaine-vincent-delaporte Makipai Wines is a partnershipDue to poor weather during much of the growing season, this vintage should, by all rights, be best forgotten. And it is true that summer temperatures were cool, there were 100 mm of precipitation in August, ripening was very uneven, there were burst berries, etc. However, a miraculous and radical change in the weather propitious to botrytis turned what started out as a handicap to a decisive advantage. In fact, the variety and complexity of grapes