2008 | Château d’Yquem | Sauternes (Magnum) Hot on Sale

2008 | Château d’Yquem | Sauternes (Magnum)

Dessert Wine: 2008 | Château d’Yquem | Sauternes (Magnum)

A straw/gold color. Lovely intense vibrant pineapple & runny-honey aromas. The wine is intensely sweet, but the texture is quite light & smooth.

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Producer: Château d’Yquem

Ratings: WA | 95  JS | 95

Vintage: 2008

Size: 1.5L

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

Detailed Description

A straw/gold color. Lovely intense vibrant pineapple & runny-honey aromas. The wine is intensely sweet, but the texture is quite light & smooth. On the palate mandarin notes join the ripe pineapple & perfumed, liquid honey. There are also ripe mango touches & a great concentration of fruit. The wine is a very clean style with plentiful well-integrated oak. There is fresh acidity balanced alcohol & the finish lasts very well.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Sporting a medium lemon-gold color, the 2008 d’Yquem is forward, displaying an already complex, compellingly savory/earthy nose of toasted almonds, cloves, damp soil, crushed stones and yeast extract with a core of peach preserves, lemon tart, dried pineapple and allspice. Rich, spicy and decadent in the mouth, with a racy backbone lifting the fruit, it finishes long and multilayered.

• James Suckling: Beautiful lemon cream, chamomile and fried pineapple notes, with a refreshing, almost floral edge running along as well. Creamy coconut and green plum notes fill in on the finish, which has admirable length. A restrained, lighter style, with lovely precision.

Producer Information

Château d’Yquem is a property in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux, making what is arguably the world’s most famous dessert wine. It was the only Sauternes château rated as Premier Cru Supérieur in the official Classification of 1855, and is priced accordingly. The Yquem estate, owned by the King of England in the Middle Ages, has produced late-harvest wine since at least the late 1500s. The 103 hectare (254 acre) vineyard is situated on the highest hill in Sauternes. The soils here are perfect for the production of sweet wine – a warm, dry topsoil of pebbles and course gravel lies over a clay subsoil that retains generous water reserves, aiding with the development of noble rot, and there are around 60 miles (100km) of drains to prevent waterlogging. At any one time around 12ha (30 acres) of vineyard are either fallow or have young vines not suitable for production.