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  • Country ranking ?

    549
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    -
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Salads

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Vintage 2003

2003 was the hottest vintage ever seen in Bordeaux. The most successful châteaux have passed their exceptional 2000s and some claim to have made their greatest wines in living memory.

Very dry and extremely hot summer days and nights (16 days > 95°F compared to 2 in 2000, 6 in 2005, 4 in 2009). Need to eliminate the superscript here. I can't figure out how to do it.) The deeply colored reds, low acidities and high tannins are a departure fr...

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Tasted six times - last time in October 2015. Consistent notes. The yield per ha here was only 7 hl and the remaining sugar in the wine ended at the astonishingly unbelievable level of 12.7%!

Light golden with incredibly pure and intense botrytis, really extravagant fruit-sweetness and richness, fatness and exquisite structure. Incredibly pure style in this wine, which is fabulously constructed. Undoubtely the best vintage for Nairac since the sensational 1997 vintage. When tasted in October 2007, it still amazed me and I upgraded it from 96+p to 97+p. This wine had not only extravagantly high level of botrytis but expressed also incredible balance between its immense sweetness and corresponding acidity. In April 2009, it still was that sensantional. Nairac 2003, Climens 2003, Raymond Lafon 2013, de Fargues 2003 and Yquem 2003 are undoubtely the best wines of the vintage in Sauternes & Barsac. In April 2011, I felt this wine still was something special, with extravagant style and immense level of sweetness and acidity. Fantastic effort!! Four and a half year later, this wine's not lost anything of its stunning qualities, only acidity is now more and more present and greatly matches sweetness.

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