- Producer
- Chateau d`Yquem
- Origin
- Sauternes, Barsac & Sauternes, Bordeaux FRANCE
- Colour
- white
- Wine Style
- sweet
- Dominant Grape
- Semillon
- Closure Style
- cork
- Maturity
- ready
- Bottle Size
- 37.5cl
- Case Quantity
- 12
- Alcohol
- 13.5%
- Wine Score
- 19 points, Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com, January 2017
100 points, Neal Martin, vinous.com, October 2016
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Media Reviews
Jancis Robinson
Light gold, very fresh and gorgeous and complete. Just washed over the palate – so clean and vital and reverberating, not to mention revitalising even to a palate that had been treated to all the wines above already. What a feat! What a wine! Wonderful satiny texture and great balance and charm. 19 points
Neal Martin
You may ask: what is the point? Another perfect score for the 2001 d`Yquem. Oh well, why not? This bottle, served blind, reinforced the sheer unadulterated brilliance of this legendary Sauternes now at 15 years old. Doesn`t time fly. It seems to be aging at a glacial pace, hardly changed since I last tasted it. The nose is like the throbbing engine of an Aston Martin Vantage, ready to go. It is so packed with intensity, perhaps a little more resinous than I recall, but with almost crystalline delineation. The palate is perfectly balanced and laden with botrytis, not as unctuous or as rich as say, the 2009 d`Yquem, yet with heavenly focus and a crescendo of flavors that take your breath away: acacia honey, yellow plum, white peach and orange sorbet. The startling things is ... this is just the opening act. 100 points