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  • Country ranking ?

    1 332
  • Producer ranking ?

    83
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Salads

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The Story

With an annual production of 10,000 bottles a year, Y (pronounced "ee-grek" in French) is a rare wine. It is made from the same outstanding terroir and the same vines as Château d'Yquem. Although work in the vineyard is every bit as meticulous, the grapes are picked and the wine made in a different way.

 

Y was formerly made at the end of the harvest, with the last bunches left on the vines. These grapes, affected to varying degrees by B...

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Wine Information

The weather was hot and dry throughout much of the growing season, except for 2 weeks of unexpectedly cool temperatures in September that made for the ideal ripening of grapes that were already in superb condition. Rain arrived at just the right time and soon after it was time to harvest a very homogeneous crop.
1996 Y was picked in just two days: the 17th of September and the 3rd of October. 
This is a benchmark for Y – a new style, and the...

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Vintage 1996

1996 presents itself as a “classic” Bordeaux year, although – as Jancis Robinson MW wrote – not in the “lean” sense; Although Farr Vintners director Tom Hudson told the drinks industry it may have been a "very good" rather than "really great" year as it was not uniformly excellent across the region .

As a reminder, 1996 was a particularly promising vintage for Médoc wines. The Berry Bros & Rudd website boasts: “This is one of the great post...

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Origin

Sauternes, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Satisfactory

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

1h

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d'Yquem

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