Hervé Dubourdieu wrote to me this summer:

The sample that you have just received is a selection made by my three-year-old son, André. I say that because so far it is the only wine that he has really responded to since he was born. From the mouths of babes comes only the truth, n’est-ce pas, and that is why I named this special cuvée for him, Sélection André Dubourdieu.
     It is the result of a micro-vinification of grapes selected out by our four most experienced harvesters, six baskets of grapes per harvester per day, nothing but the ripest grapes with extreme botrytis from our oldest vines. One month of such a harvest produced only six barrels (150 cases) of wine.
     The thick juice was fermented and aged in new barrels I selected myself, air-dried staves from a 200-year-old oak, the Rolls Royce of barrels at Bordeaux.
     — Fermentation stopped 15° alcohol
     — Residual sugar at 8°
     — Native yeasts only
     — No enological products or chemicals
     — Racked by gravity, no pumping
     — Bottled unfiltered by hand, no pumping     
     I took a risk to put André in bottle completely naturally, but it is such a beautiful healthy baby that I feel totally confident about its future.     

     I opened the bottle that accompanied the letter and was swept away. Here is a great Sauternes as intensely botrytised as I have ever tasted. I feared that Sauternes like this were a thing of the past, reserved for the ultra-wealthy who can afford old vintages of Yquem at auction. This is a triumph that you and your kids and their kids will treasure.  

**Extremely limited quantities, limit two bottles per order**