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    1 754
  • Producer ranking ?

    114
  • Decanting time

    30min
  • When to drink

    When we find an original one
  • Food Pairing

    Enjoy without food

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World's Most Expensive Wines

When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a “deceased nobleman” containing “a large Quantity of Madeira and high Flavour’d Claret.” The records don’t relate how much these delightfully described “high Flavour’d clarets” fetched but as the whole sale realized a grand total £175, it is a sure bet that if Chris...

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The Story

The pleasure derived from tasting Yquem is difficult to describe.

It offers a myriad of well-balanced, complex flavours that generate even more harmonies over time. The impression that remains is reminiscent of a quote from Frédéric Dard "the silence that follows a piece by Mozart, in which the listener remains suffused with the music". This reflects the fact that Château d'Yquem stays on the palate for a remarkable long time, providing a u...

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Wine Information

Château d’Yquem—three from 1787 and three from 1784. One of the bottles of 1784 Yquem was the centerpiece of a wine tasting organized last year by Mr. Rodenstock for an international circle of wine connoisseurs and collectors, including Michael Broadbent, the director of Christie’s wine department. “The 1784 that I tasted was soft, still sweet, and without fault,” Mr. Broadbent told us when we visited him in his office the day before the sale....

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Another dark Th J bottle, engraved not labelled, with a deep punt. Deep, deep brown with a greenish rim and, like the 1784, smelt slighty mouldy at first. There was definite life here, however, in a wine that was slightly treacly, extremely lively with marked but not unpeasant acidity. On the palate a burnt sugar start, dry finish, no great persistence. After 40 minutes there was an intense nose of chestnuts, autumnal and briary. More robust and concentrated but less charming than the 1784. Powerful, chunky.

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Origin

Sauternes, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Poor

Investment potential

Very Good

Fake factory

Serious

Glass time

15min
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