Velletri
I have just had an excellent wine: Velletri, from Italy. Vinted in 1994 (yup, folks: it’ a decade old), it is wonderful. I can best describe the aroma as like unto honeycomb, with that spicy sweetness common to the best honeys (and wines—this is no coincidence). Amazing stuff. It makes me wish that I’d picked up more when it was available.
Unfortunately, the supply of pre-twenty-first-century wines is steadily diminishing. Someday my (thus far theoretical and improbable) children will find a bottle of 19xx just as strange and exotic as I would a bottle of 18xx.
