1974, a legend that never dies

1974, a finger on the play button, the Newport 58 concert at the end of the track, a glass of Legend Vintage Rivesaltes longing to be tasted, and thoughts drifting towards that year when we lost our legend. Edward Kennedy Ellington, The Duke, a brilliantly gifted jazzman who accompanied the greatest names at the piano — Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane — also led his Orchestra, which he left behind that very year. At the same moment, another legend came to life in the cellars of Rivesaltes.

Carried by the melody that animated the Duke, the Legend Vintage Rivesaltes 1974, with its notes of honey, apricot and light tobacco, conceals a certain opulence, a fiery spirit that can be felt right through to the nose.

On the palate, the vintage 1974 Legend Vintage Rivesaltes allows us to escape, much like Ellington's jazz, with that same warmth and suave power, as if brass, strings, percussion and piano were playing their symphony across our taste buds.

Let the Duke tickle the ivories for our palate during a tasting of Legend Vintage Rivesaltes 1974, and let us pay tribute to him, for as the Duke once said: "You have to find some way of saying it without saying it."