Dagueneau's Jurancon

This is a bottle of Jurancon from Didier Dagueneau, les Jardins de Babylone. Didier Dagueneau was Pouilly-Fume's "enfant terrible" (as Hugh Johnson put it), whose iconoclastic yet perfectionist attitude caused friction with his fellow vignerons in the Loire whilst at the same time redeeming the reputation of Pouilly-Fume by improving quality. Dagueneau wanted to make top dessert wines, but was not able to create a top dessert wine with AC status at his base in Pouilly. He eventually found the ideal vineyard for his ventures in Pau at the Pyrenees foothills. Created out of Petit Manseng, this wine was vinified to reflect the minerality of the terroir and seeks to achieve balance of the acidity, texture and depth of the fruit at each vintage rather than emphasizing the degree of achievable sweetness.