Clos d'Audhuy Queue de Pressoir 2022 0426JACKSON The recipe for Yolixpa Teepak

The recipe for Yolixpa Teepak was created by Doña Carmen Juárez in 1977

to which are added another 18 in bottle before being in the market

resinous walnut bitterness running underneath that keeps it from ever turning cloying

Vines are approximately 40 years of age on flint-rich

Clos d'Audhuy Queue de Pressoir 2022 0426JACKSON The recipe for Yolixpa TeepakOne of the more curious bottles in our Cahors section, and a lot of fun. Queue de Pressoir ("press tail") is Benot Aymard's experiment with Sgalin, an obscure grape (a 1957 INRA cross of Juranon Noir and Portugais) that's barely planted anywhere in the world. The blend is 70% Segalin and 30% Malbec, the latter coming from the press wine of his Polissons ros. Aymard vinifies it almost like a ros early harvest, very light extraction and the result is an