1977 L'Archiviste Maury Vin Doux Naturel

Some of the Longest-Lived Wines Anywhere 47-Year-Old Sweet Wine BHW has the Lowest Price Anywhere! Free Shipping on 6 or More Bottles About the Wine Maury’s Vin Doux Naturel are meditative wines to savor next to a fire with a good book and reflected love. These wines have an amazing ability to age and are some of the longest-lived wines anywhere.Tasting a Maury wine is a mystical experience. These wines are, like wine Enthusiast said, "complex, deeply flavored, and warm the body when it’s cool outside." Maury is home to Roussillion’s famous vins doux naturels. To produce this sweet wine, fermentation is stopped in the middle of the ‘solid’ phase in mid-fermentation by adding neutral alcohol to capture the natural grape sugars. Alcoholic maceration continues for another three weeks. Then, the wine is left to age in barrels for many years. If you'd like to know more about fortified wines and Vin doux Naturel,  visit our blog. If you haven't tried Philippe Gayral's wines yet, now's t