2001 Château d'Yquem

Community Tasting Notes (464) Avg Score: 97.8 points

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  5/2/2024 - ricard Likes this wine: 99 Points

  I was secretly hoping to be critical and say, nah, it's not all it's cracked up to be, but how wrong I was. It's the greatest sweet wine I've ever had, in fact one of the greatest wines of any kind I've ever had. You would not, could not, want to drink this every day. It's like listening to Mozart's Requiem for the first time and realising what beauty is. This truly is the most sensational wine. Believe it. What an absurd privilege.

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  4/16/2024 - Biskuit Likes this wine:

  Served alongside a range of dessert wines, clearly a class above.

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  3/18/2024 - Kim Gerner wrote:

  Tasted vintage 2001 regularly since 8 years ago as it is clearly one of my all time favorites - every time I have tasted it, it is worth 98 to 98++. This time it was an experiment: Poured from a bottle which I coravined first time 6 years ago. Since then coravined 2 times further before today, last time 1½ years ago with only 1/3 left in the bottle. Despite that the bottle was still outstanding today. That is impressive but of course also influenced by the fact that this is a wine with both high acidity and high sugar level. Not quite at same level as I remember form "fresh bottles", but nevertheless outstanding. It would not be fair rating it officially on cellartracker, but I rated this coravine version 97. I can also reveal that 1½ years ago when I tasted the coaravined bottle last time it was not affected by the coravine (at that time the bottle was 2/3 full)

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  2/23/2024 - sh6k Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Amazing. Nose was slightly less powerful than my last bottle but traded off a tiny bit of power for broad all-encompassing finesse. And the palate... ultra focused finesse (and acidity) with amazing palate-filling fruit, and a backing of caramel. Still at the start of its life. With a couple hours of air, spice and amaretto adding to the bouquet. Added a chemical note to the nose -- petrol like a riesling with another twist I can't pinpoint (but is enticing). Cotton candy finish.
  
  Spectacular yet again. Easily 100 points.

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  2/18/2024 - Baxterna Likes this wine: 100 Points

  The is our first experience with Sauternes, and it was incredible. It had such a gorgeous nose of pineapple upside down cake and cinnamon spice. Velvety smooth on the palate. A truly perfectly balanced wine. We chilled this wine for an hour on ice, and it was amazing! We enjoyed this with 2 of our closest friends who have tasted many vintages. They agreed this might be the best they’d ever tasted. So happy we finally cracked this OWC of 6 bottles. So happy we have 5 more to enjoy over the years. What a beautiful occasion to try this wine from a 400+ year old vineyard.

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