2021 | Klein Constantia Vin de Constance | Constantia | South Africa

The legendary sweet wine of Constantia — poured for kings and emperors, reborn from South Africa's oldest wine estate.

Vin de Constance is one of history's great dessert wines: the Constantia nectar that Napoleon, Frederick the Great and Jane Austen's characters coveted, made at Klein Constantia from unfortified late-harvest Muscat de Frontignan. Vinified without botrytis and aged slowly, it's an amber elixir of astonishing longevity, presented here in the classic 500ml bottle.

A wine with three centuries of royal provenance is a rare thing to pour. An icon reborn, endlessly cellar-worthy → great vintages of Constance only appreciate → at $89.99 the half-liter you're pouring living wine history.

• 100% Muscat de Frontignan (Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains)
• Vin de Constance, Constantia — South Africa's historic sweet wine
• Klein Constantia; unfortified, non-botrytis late harvest
• 500ml — built to age for decades

Candied orange, apricot, honey and warm spice over a bright, saline-mineral lift that keeps it lithe rather than cloying. Translation: luscious but electric — marmalade and dried apricot cut with acidity, glorious with blue cheese, tarte tatin, or on its own.

A dessert wine that emperors chased across oceans, in the cellar-worthy format. Exactly the bottle to open at a milestone — or hold for one.