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  • Country ranking ?

    711
  • Producer ranking ?

    7
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

The Sauternes produced by Château de Fargues is the result of outstanding gifts of nature and the motivation – one might even say the stubbornness – of a family devoted to fine wine, and an attentive, enthusiastic winemaking team.
It takes four years to produce wine at Fargues, and work is constantly being done simultaneously on four vintages at any one time.
This is how the refinement and delicious taste sensations are procured at Château de Fargues.
Its myriad aromas wake up the senses and coat the palate with a host of sensations.

 

At Château de Fargues, the focus on quality starts out in the vineyard, with the drainage and planting of young vines, and continues up until bottling in the château cellars. The team at Fargues does everything in their power to obtain the best quality juice.

Production is small because of the extraordinarily demanding criteria – that go so far as to reject an entire crop if it is not up to scratch. The château refuses to bottle any wine that is not worthy of its name. That is why there was no Château de Fargues whatsoever in certain years such as 1972, 1974, and 1992. This means coming to grips with the fact that in some years the magic just doesn’t work.

Exceptional conditions cannot be repeated every vintage, and it is all to the château’s credit that they accept to take such a radical and courageous step. The estate accepts on principle the idea of working in the vineyard for an entire year without a single bottle of wine being entitled to the Château de Fargues name…

“Noch” – “More” – is the family motto.

The small winemaking team at Fargues is tightly knit, works together well, and is totally devoted to the goal of making great wine.

Training and passing on traditional skills is essential. Every worker is versatile, able to work in the vineyard or the cellar, planting vines or bottling wine, topping up and racking wine or looking after the Bazas cattle, or even helping in the wheat fields… The aim on all fronts is to produce the best possible quality. Everyone has a great deal of respect for nature, and works closely with their colleagues. This sort of relationship is essential in vineyard management.

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Wine Information

The 2009 vintage

WEATHER DURING THE GROWING SEASON


Grapes of exceptional quality
After later than usual bud break, violent storms in May fortunately spared Château de Fargues, and the vines were able to take full advantage of fine spring weather and an absolutely ideal summer. Flowering took place in the first days of June.
This augured well for a reasonably large crop, as well as a relatively early-maturing one. The water reserves in our clay soils at the end of winter enabled the vines to cope with a dry summer (the sixth warmest summer since 1921) without encountering water stress. Dry anticyclonic conditions prevailed in early September.
Beautiful sunshine was followed by cold nights, making for optimum ripeness.

HARVESTS


Rot of anthology
Showers on the 19th and 20th September brought 65 mm of rain, followed by tenacious morning mists and beautiful sunny afternoons - textbook conditions for the development of noble rot! The harvest started on Monday, the 28th of September.
Pickers wore tee-shirts from the 2nd to the 6th of October as temperatures reached 30°C. The harvest went relatively quickly, concentrating grapes with varying degrees of botrytisation, from pourri plein (in which the grapes are fully botrytised ) to pourri rôti (in which the grapes are partly shriveled). Noble rot was given new impetus by stormy weather from the 7th to the 12th of October. On Thursday the 15th, the 3rd and final phase of the harvest began under a clear, blue sky accompanied by a strong, cold, north-easterly wind that dried the grapes. The very last grapes were picked on the evening of October 19th, just 3 weeks after the vintage started. This was not too soon, because a series of heavy showers arrived on the 20th!

THE WINE

Fermentation and ageing in oak barrels for three years.
Alcohol : 13°9 - Sugar : 140 g/l - Acidity : 4.2 g/l
The initial appraisal by Alexandre de Lur Saluces sums up the vintage marvellously:
"... this is so honeyed and delicious, it makes the taster feel as though he is turning into a bee!"

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Written Notes

Great intensity of beautifully botrytised flavours, wonderful balance and sophisticated touch. Exquisite sweetness and acidity. Extremely long on the palate with exquisite honeyed aftertaste.

  • 96p

Pale golden. Fruity, apricots, pineapples, fruity, ripe and tropical, some spices and vanilla nose. Fresh acidity, fruity, rounded, fresh, smooth, lovely balance, layered, super. Very long indeed. 98

  • 98p
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Fargues, Sauternes
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