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2009 Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 93

"This just has to go down as one of the great successes of the vintage. Just to check, I tasted it blind against the Second Growths and its superiority shone out; then against other Firsts, and its combination of lush concentration and an elegant 'lift' put it right there at the top. At a quite moderate 136 g/l of residual, and an alcohol and acidity that are almost identical to the '07, this is the kind of 'nervous' balance that many larger estates would maybe have preferred to achieve this year. In that, it is one of the few wines to resemble the '01, and is maybe even superior."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $39.99

Case Price (12): $440.00

2005 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

WA 92

Bottle: $34.99

Case Price (12): $385.00

2007 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

WA 94

Bottle: $39.99

Case Price (12): $440.00

2009 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

Bottle: $49.99

Case Price (12): $550.00

2010 Château Coutet - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

WS 93-96

WA 93-95

We really enjoyed this wine during our group tasting with Bill Blatch, even before he took us to Chateau Coutet later that day! Our meeting with Aline Baly, niece of owner Philippe Baly, only reconfirmed our wonderful feelings for this wine. Rich and lush with tropical fruit flavors galore, this is fantastic stuff!

~~Regular price $44.95~~

SALE! $39.99

2000 Château d'Yquem - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

Beautiful golden-yellow colour. Concentrated, very attractive bouquet of ripe fruit, stewed fruit, and vanilla biscuits. Round, very sweet, and well-balanced on the palate. Plenty of volume and a suave quality marvellously underpinned by acidity. The fruity, spicy, mentholated nuances are accompanied by a really beautiful smooth, elegant texture. While this vintage had low yields, the quality perfectly reflects the drastic selection made during picking and blending.

Bottle: $219.00

2007 Château d'Yquem - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 96

WA 98

Tasted single blind against its peers. Under blind conditions, the Yquem 2007 shines like a diamond. Nevertheless, it is initially rather taciturn on the nose, eventually opening up beautifully with touches of lemon curd, Mirabelle, and clear honey. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine definition and there seems to be a great deal of energy and vigor dispensed for your pleasure. There is such race and nervosity, and then that finish just purrs with harmony and focus. This Yquem feels just so alive and vivacious, yet there is an effortless quality here that is unmatched by its peers. Tasted January 2011. Read More

Bottle: $399.00

Case Price (12): $4,400.00

2001 Château de Fargues - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 95

Bottle: $69.99

Case Price (24): $1,540.00

2007 Château de Fargues - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 94

Tasted single blind against its peers. The de Fargues 2007 is a tease, comparatively light on the nose at first, offering tempting scents of pressed white flowers, yellow plums and custard cremes. The palate is medium-bodied with a lovely viscous texture and fine acidity with hints of ginger and barley sugar towards the Barsac-like finish. Watch this blossom over the next decade. Tasted January 2011.

Bottle: $89.99

Case Price (12): $990.00

2009 Château de Fargues - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 97

"How absolutely refreshing the more acid nature of Fargues is in a vintage of such richness! It acts as a veritable flavour enhancer, bringing out the strongly mineral character of the terroir and the forceful tea and cinnamon flavours of the botrytis, still noticeable even after 6 months of ?levage. This is a broadly constituted, strong flavoured, quite forceful Sauternes (Maybe it wasn't by chance that Comte Alexandre served the almost equally strong ?83 for lunch after our last tasting). It has clearly been built for the long haul, not only for the extra year of ?levage in barrel that they do here, but also for really long-term cellaring in bottle."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $89.99

Case Price (12): $990.00

2009 Château de Malle - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 90

"This is a straight, tight-structured wine, not at all lush or overtly sweet. I was totally surprised when told it was up at 140 g/l. residual. The flavours are slow to develop but certainly all there, in the form of mint and orange-peel. This is very reserved and if it ends up as it is now, will certainly turn out to be a great food wine."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $23.99

Case Price (12): $264.00

2009 Château de Myrat - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

"Here is another very rich and strong wine. It checks in at 14?0 alcohol and 150 g/l residual, and is full of ripe, quite roasted flavours. Yet it has tremendous freshness, partly from the quite high acidity and also from the 'lift' that it's chalky Barsac subsoil certainly provides. So, in the mouth, as well as being very rich, it is also very fresh."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $25.99

Case Price (12): $289.00

2009 Château Doisy-Daëne - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

"Denis Dubourdieu considers this vintage to be the finest produced by him, his father and his grandfather! He is a great proponent of the preservation of fine fresh botrytis fruit flavour and usually eschews any excess sweetness that he considers may smother it.

This year, however, he has found a much sweeter balance, at 155 g/l residual, but this in no way compromises the freshness of the spring flower aromas and white peach fruitiness (there is little of the usual dried apricots this year) and it is all balanced by a quite high acidity (4.5 g/l). The result is an unusually sweet but very complete and complex wine that will certainly age for ever.

Denis has also managed to produce 7 barrels of 'Extravagant', a 50-50 Sauvignon - Semillon blend this year, with 12? of alcohol and 320 g/l residual. It is a very fat style of wine, more on its power than the slightly more fruit-driven '07."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $34.99

Case Price (12): $385.00

2003 Château Doisy-Daëne - L'Extravagant Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 93

WA 99

Doesn't give much on the nose, with subtle lemon, honey, tangerine and apricot. Full-bodied and very sweet, with a long finish. Thick and compacted, with loads of mango and sweet candied fruit. Best after 2010. 150 cases made.

Bottle: $219.00

Case Price (6): $1,199.00

2005 Château Doisy-Daëne - L'Extravagant Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 96

Bottle: $299.00

2007 Château Doisy-Daëne - L'Extravagant Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 98

Bottle: $295.00

2009 Château Doisy-Daëne - L'Extravagant Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WA 100

~~Regular price $299.00~~

SALE! $198.00

2010 Château Doisy-Védrines - Barsac (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac

WA 93

The Doisy-Vedrines has a refined bouquet of lemon curd, dried honey and just a touch of quince, perhaps not quite as rich as recent vintages, but very well-defined. The palate is well-balanced, with a touch of lime cordial and passion fruit on the entry, and zesty acidity and impressive precision towards the taut, slightly spicy rich finish. Returning after an hour, this sample has enhanced clarity and volume, and subsequent encounters confirm a very promising Doisy-Vedrines.The Doisy-Vedrines has a refined bouquet of lemon curd, dried honey and just a touch of quince, perhaps not quite as rich as recent vintages, but very well-defined. The palate is well-balanced, with a touch of lime cordial and passion fruit on the entry, and zesty acidity and impressive precision towards the taut, slightly spicy rich finish. Returning after an hour, this sample has enhanced clarity and volume, and subsequent encounters confirm a very promising Doisy-Vedrines. -- Neal Martin

Bottle: $24.99

Case Price (12): $275.00

2009 Château Filhot - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

"Gabriel de Vaucelles claims to have produced a very similar wine to his famed '90. Certainly the analysis is the same: (13?8 alcohol, 140 g/l residual and 4.0 g/l total acidity). However, whereas the '90 had a certain roasted quality to the fruit, the '09 is fresher, and has a very pronounced mineral flavour that keeps it tighter amidst all the very strong concentration."
--Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com

Bottle: $21.99

2009 Château Guiraud - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 97

WE 95

WA 94

"As always, this is dominated by a freshness of flavour, this time kiwi-like fruit as well as the traditional mandarin orange peel - Xavier Planty calls it ?rhubarb?. The 35% Sauvignon, still apart in several lots in the cellar, is mainly responsible for this, but the S?millons are very aromatic too. The base is however powerful, although, at 135 g/l residual, they resisted the temptation of going for broke on sweetness, no mean feat for such a large estate con-fronted by such a sudden onrush of botrytis. The overall effect is of evenness and of a reserved kind of tightness, surrounded by but not dominated by all that freshness of pure fruit."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $37.99

Case Price (12): $418.00

2010 Château Guiraud - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 92

WA 91

This "First Growth" Sauternes is owned by our friend Xavier Planty who has been at Guiraud nearly 30 years and just recently became owner after being winemaker and Director. This 2010 is another great Guiraud, fat and rich and quite sweet. Has the classic spiciness of Guiraud. Despite the high level of sweetness, it's fairly light on its feet. -- CW Wine Staff (April 2011)

Bottle: $37.95

Case Price (12): $418.00

2009 Château La Tour Blanche - Sauternes (375ml)

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes

WS 92

WE 96

"The balance here is identical to Raymond Lafon: 13?8 alcohol, 140 g/l residual and 3.9 g/l total acidity, but what a difference in style. There is a menthol kind of freshness pervading the wine, giving it an almost New World, or even Alsatian touch. This higher tone of fresh fruit will presumably get penetrated by the more roasted S?millon lots during the ?levage. For the second time (07 and 09 - no '08 was made), the sweetness is less absolute, La Tour Blanche having held the record for residual in '03 and '05, and has settled down into a finer balance as a result."
Bill Blatch

Bottle: $42.99

Case Price (12): $473.00