Odile's grandmother started keeping twelve bottles of every vintage in the cellar under the kitchen. Nobody was allowed to touch them.
What Chasselas does with time
People say Chasselas does not age. The library says otherwise. The old bottles turn golden and taste of honey, mushrooms and smoke, and the acidity is still there.
We open the library for guests on the long table tasting. Each time we pick one vintage from a hard year and one from an easy one, and let people guess which was which.
