From Yquem to Fargues - The Excellence of a Wine, The History of a Family | Alexandre de Lur Saluces

Only one glass per vine! Such is the ideal yield for the production of Sauternes wine, due to extremely selective harvesting. In our impatient and financially-driven times, this result seems extravagant. A unique elixir, "liquid light," as Frédéric Dard called it, Sauternes is currently endangered by the reduction of parcels dedicated to it, in favor of an easy-to-produce dry white wine, and by the threats posed to the region's ecosystem by a railway project.

Alexandre de Lur Saluces, with forty years of experience serving the family estates of Yquem and Fargues, crafts a genuine plea for Sauternes here, striving to share his passion and explain the creation of this singular sweet wine, the fruit of human labor, ancestral know-how, a unique terroir, and a miraculous natural phenomenon. He offers readers an immersion into a timeless world, through a sort of love letter to a nectar that, since the 16th century, has delighted enthusiasts and aesthetes worldwide.