Chateau d’Yquem Sauternes 375mL 2018

Description

Chateau d’Yquem, the world famous Sauternes estate, and perhaps the most famous dessert wine, widely accepted as Bordeaux’s unrivaled sweet wine producer, with a history going to the late 16th century. Although a challenging vintage given how dry and warm, the 2018 vintage was dubbed the “Vintner’s Vintage” showcasing the winemaker’s hard work and careful expertise in maintaing both the vines and wines in impeccable condition. Blend consists of 85% Semillon and 15% Sauvignon Blanc, wines are aged in French oak casks for 3 and a half years. In the glass, this wine offers up intense aromas of stone fruits, but more wonderfully tropical fruits jump out of the glass, with mango and pineapple taking the vanguard, followed by coconut and passionfruit, and characteristic aromas of botrytis ( candied ginger, saffron), underlying citrus zest keeps this wine tame and wonderfully framed. On the palate, the texture is unctuous coating every crevice in the mouth, with a lengthy mineral finish that shows honeyed flowers as it dries down. Traditionally paired with foie gras, roquefort or buttery shellfish (lobster definitely is the more traditional, but please try this with uni, the briny sweetness ricochets off the fruits in this wine)