Primitivo Quiles Fondillón Vino Nobile ‘Gran Reserva’ Solera 1948 NV billecart-salmon limestone and clay soils in

limestone and clay soils in the Premières Côtes de Blaye (on the right bank overlooking the Gironde estuary)

Juicy fruit balances the crisp

These characteristics follow through in the mouth with the wine needing time or air and food right now

Grapes are naturally fermented

sage and bay leaf

Primitivo Quiles Fondillón Vino Nobile ‘Gran Reserva’ Solera 1948 NV billecart-salmon limestone and clay soils inUnfortified, this is just remarkably managed in the cellar, to end up presenting as a wine of 16% natural alcohol + 60 years' age character, and still beautifully lively, graceful and elegant. It is lightly sweet, rather than a blockbuster PX style. Very long and easy, it is as much suited to drinking as an aperitif afternoon tipple on ice as it is to the more obvious after dinner liqueur slot. The 1948 Solera is 10 foudre of 1700 litres each,