Community Tasting Notes 215

• jrobs7777 wrote:

  April 1, 2024 - Sweet but not cloying. Could use a touch more acid. Orange and spice. Nice aging arc but I would have perhaps expected a but more from a 1983. Still, at 40+ years, it is fun to drink and very enjoyable.

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• rocknroller wrote: 91 points

  February 23, 2024 - Fabulous All Sauternes Tasting Dinner: Part Trois (Brad's Place, St. Paul, MN): Dark amber color. Drank a glass over 2 hours. Sweet pear tart, baked pear, spicy orange marmalade, baked apricot, medium bodied, baked fruits, dried orange peel, spicy botrytis, not particularly sweet and more advanced in presentation.

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• Cailles wrote: 91 points

  December 31, 2023 - 20 Top Wines of the 1983 Vintage: To conclude the tasting, we had three sweet wines. By then, I had reached my limit with wine and didn’t take detailed notes. Unfortunately, the Yquem (NR), which could have been a highlight of this vintage, suffered from cork taint. The other two, the Rieussec (91pts) with a slight wet cardboard note affecting an otherwise enjoyable experience, and the Tokaji Wine Trust Tokaji Aszu 6 Puttonyos (88pts), which I found too cloying for my liking, were solid but not extraordinary, especially so late in the tasting.

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• G_H wrote: 91 points

  November 25, 2023 - 40 years on: A global 1983 retrospective: After an initial jittery phase, this opened up and had some saffron, orange zest, almond, botrytis. while it had a good length it only had a medium body and lacked the punch you'd want from such a great vintage

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• sirpat00 wrote: 93 points

  November 25, 2023 - 1983 vintage horizontal with >20 wines, mostly from Bordeaux. Key observations: 1/ Acceptable vintage for Champagne with DP over-delivering, 2/ Laville Haut Brion is a masterpiece among the whites, 3/ Bordeaux is going strong at 40 years of age with stand-outs Latour and Margaux. 4/ No need to chase any Napa’s from the vintage, 5/ off-piste Italians kept up impressively with Soldera an undisputed medalist.
  
  Tasting note:
  Saffron, candid fig and other candid berries, orange zest and honey. Nice fresh acidity, still sweet but only moderately so. A solid Rieussec, but not my favorite vintage. Pretty consistent compared to the last bottle a couple of years ago.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1983
• Type White - Sweet/Dessert
• Producer Château Rieussec
• Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Sauternais
• Appellation Sauternes
• UPC Codes 3296361016300, 3296361017109

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• Pending Delivery 13 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,500 (61%)
• Consumed 945 (38%)

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