2009 | Château d’Yquem For Sale

2009 | Château d’Yquem

Dessert Wine: 2009 | Château d’Yquem

The aromas are so rich and powerful, with great ripe apricots. There are honey, spice and beautiful sweet spiced pears.

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Producer: Château d’Yquem

Ratings: D | 98  JS | 98

Vintage: 2009

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon

Country/Region: France, Sauternes

Detailed Description

The aromas are so rich and powerful, with great ripe apricots. There are honey, spice and beautiful sweet spiced pears.

Reviews:

• Decanter: Voluptuous honeyed nose, with peach compote aromas and spicy oak. Has a fine attack, leaner and more precise than the nose suggests. It’s minty and almost peppery, with dried apricot flavours, a wine of tremendous drive and discreet power.Decidedly sweet but well balanced and very long.

• James Suckling: The length to this is exceptional with an intensity yet subtlety. Full and medium sweet with bright and exciting acidity. It’s all in balance here. Creme brulee, pineapple, and papaya. Lasts so long on finish. It’s so fabulous now. It will age forever but it’s already a joy to taste, even drink.

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.