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  • Country ranking ?

    298
  • Producer ranking ?

    18
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    from 2020
  • Food Pairing

    Pumpkin Cheesecake with an Amaretti Cookie Graham Cracker Crust

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Tasted at the château, the 2005 Château d’Yquem delivers a similar performance as last year. Lucid in colour, the bouquet is detailed with very pure honey, vanilla and almond scents, still a little new oak to be fully assimilated but demonstrating superb focus. The palate is virtually identical to last year’s bottle : exquisite balance and perfectly judged acidity, but perhaps just gaining a little richness and viscosity over the last 12 month...

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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

In 2014, the three weather sequences during the harvest were ideal for noble rot: light rain to induce Botrytis growth, followed by two or three weeks of stable, hot, dry weather, promoting rapid concentration of the sugars by evaporation. The picking waves simply followed these three periods of Botrytis development. In this way, the 22 mm rainfall of 25-28 August was followed by 19 dry days, leading to a very early first wave of picking, from...

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Vintage 2014

Bordeaux Vintage 2014 - is not a great vintage like 2005, 2009 or 2010 but it will be able to secure a position as one of the very good vintages of Bordeaux.

Timed usually ath the end of March and beginning of April the Primeur Week in Bordeaux is always an exciting moment as it allows a first view on the latest vintage. The huge number of wines available for tasting is impressing and one week seems almost to short. Therefore the Union de G...

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Written Notes

Tasted in November 2021. 80% of the harvest went into Grand Vin. Freshness, intense flavours of sweet grapefruit and almonds, remarkably high acidity, very sophisticated and refined, incredibly intense, fantastic sweetness, vibrant and long on the aftertaste. Beautiful wine. The king's still rules! 

  • 98p

Bright yellow colour. Expressive nose with elegant aroma reminiscent of tangerine, pineapple and mango, hints of vanilla and orange peel. On the palate elegant sweetness, discreeet acidity, complex flavour, hints of mild spices and tropical fruit, excellent length.

  • 96p

Pale golden. Apples, apricots, vanilla, fruity nose. Fresh acidity, ripe, fruity, detailed, nuanced, layered, fresh, citrus notes, pineapples, apricots, long finish. 95-97

  • 96p

From a 0.75 lt. bottle, ,bright yellow color,very complex but reticent nose of citrus and tropical fruits,pineapple , lemon zest, quince, marzipan.Medium to full bodied,multilayered on the palate.

medium sweet and very well balanced with the acidity.Excellent lenght, has a

phantastic potential similar to 2013, the best to taste in 20 years+.

 

 

  • 95p
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Origin

Sauternes, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Good

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