With 16.5% alcohol, and costing under $35, the Maury Tuile 10 ANS D’AGE is the perfect dessert wine and it scored 19 points on the Dionysian scale of a possible 20. It’s a Vin Doux Naturel, or naturally sweet wine made by Marjorie & Stephane Gallet.
Dionysian Sharyn Kervyn introduced me to this wine, and I found it as, or more, charming than many Oporto. Sooth as silk and a long clean aftertaste make it a great dessert wine.
Plum and raisin aromas blend with spicy notes. It’s garnet colored, not inky red.With chocolate, this wine is heavenly. Made with at least 75% Grenache noir and grown in slopes of schist & slate, the wines was first made in 1936 in the Roussillon region of France. It is quite similar to Banyals,
After opening, it can last for weeks. It will be a future Dionysian Mystery Meal selection. In Vino Veritas.
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