Wine Boxes 60 years old

Gift Box Wine of 1961 : 60 years anniversary

What's in your gift box?

- A bottle of Rivesaltes from the famous House of CAZES, vintage 1961, a great natural sweet wine from Rivesaltes.

- A wooden box and a bottle.

- You can also add a gift message when you order on the website.

Why choose this gift box?

For a unique gift, we suggest our special reserve of Rivesaltes from La Maison Cazes. This superb estate is one of our partners. Thus, the bottles are authentic (labelled and bottled recently at the estate). The wines come directly from the estate's cellars to our cellar

The vintage rivesaltes de Cazes has exceptional and highly developed aromas.

After several decades in barrels. This Vin Doux Naturel, with only 500 bottles per vintage from 1931 to 1962, will seduce lovers of rare wines.

Tasting notes: It presents notes of smoke, as well as orange, wood foam, roasted nuts and ocean breeze that anticipate a complex and distinctive palate impression and show both smoky oxidation and juicy citrus fruit. A surprisingly vibrant freshness. This is a sweet wine that can be described as dynamic

Grape variety : 100% Grenache Noir

Terroir : Clay and limestone with rolled pebbles from the foothills of the Corbières.

Vinification: Direct pressing. Mutage with neutral alcohol in liquid phase during alcoholic fermentation.

Maturing : This wine has been aged for nearly eight decades in its original cask.

Percentage alcohol: 17.5 % alc / vol

What is this kind of wine?

This bottle of Rivesaltes Cazes is not defined by its "red" or "white" colour, it is a natural sweet wine made from Grenache noir. It is called a "Vin Tranquille" (red or white). This wine is "mutated" when brandy is added at 90° during fermentation. This addition of alcohol stops the alcoholic fermentation and modifies the balance of the wine:

- The degree of alcohol is higher than in a still wine.

- The sweetness is higher, since by stopping the fermentation, the yeasts have not had time to finish their effort and have not transformed all the sugars present in the base wine into alcohol.

- Bottles of Rivesaltes are wines that can be kept for a very long time. The wine has remained in barrels for decades and has only recently been bottled; hence the perfect condition of the bottle.