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Chateau d'Yquem Premier Cru Superieur, Sauternes
Chateau d'Yquem Premier Cru Superieur, Sauternes

1996 Chateau d’Yquem Premier Cru Superieur, Sauternes 1x75cl

Chateau d'Yquem

Case Format: 75cl

Max score: 95

Château Yquem is the only Premier Cru Classé Superieur in the Sauternes appellation of the Bordeaux region. This renowned sweet white wine composed of Sémillion and Sauvignon Blanc is no contest the best desert nectar in the world. Here, to ensure final quality, harvest is done grape by grape.
Original price was: £227.60.Current price is: £224.00. IN BOND

Available for Immediate Delivery

CRITIC REVIEWS

95
Neal Martin

Tasted single blind at Farr's 2005 dinner in Hong Kong. It is a while since I last tasted this vintage. Like before, the nose is tightly coiled and demands coaxing from the glass, but eventually it yields and offers a lovely bouquet of wild honey, honeysuckle, lemon curd and barleysugar. The palate is more tensile then I remember on the entry, with a keen thread of acidity and notes of mandarin, Seville orange, tinned apricot and honey, hints of almond sprinkled over the finish. It does not quite have the complexity of a top flight Yquem, but it is still a great Sauternes for long-term consideration. Tasted November 2011.

18.0
JancisRobinson.com

Half bottle. Deep gold, savoury/sour apricot and orange peel aromas. Intense, viscous, dense and there's a slightly grippy texture on the palate still. Great depth, notes of almond and baked apple and all that sweetness counterbalanced by bracing acidity. Still seems so young, and promises more. (JH)

DELIVERY INFORMATION

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY

France

REGION

Bordeaux

SUB REGION

Sauternes

VINTAGE

1996

CASE FORMAT

1x75cl

AVAILABILITY

IMMEDIATE

MAX CRITIC SCORE

95

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