2011 Château Rieussec

Community Tasting Notes (77) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  4/28/2024 - geraldsng wrote:

  A rather one-dimensional 2011 Rieussec. I've commented about it before, it is very correct but I would have appreciated more acidity as the vintage certainly could have achieved it. But on the other hand, the taste lingered to the next morning (yes I did brush my teeth), so botyritis is still great.

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  3/22/2024 - amateur62 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  PnP from a small bottle out of the fridge. Less intense than the last bottle, needed some minutes to open. On the palate notes from botrytis, dried apricot and honey, on the palate sweet, good freshness, creamy, dense and long.
  
  Great achievement, drink now to enjoy the perfect balance this wine shows now or wait a decade for the first tertiary notes, that will add the complexity you are looking for when opening a bottle of Rieussec.

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  2/10/2024 - wineton.mee wrote: 92 Points

  Popped for New Year as dessert. Pretty much everything I’m looking for in a Sauternes minus the age and tertiary development. This is still mightily youthful. Good acid to go with all that sugar. Pineapple, canned yellow peaches, apricot, marmalade building up to a refreshing mouth watering finish.

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  12/30/2023 - Chimer Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Absolutely singing, luscious, full flavoured, bright and brimming with energy and exotic fruit - will clearly last forever but already deliciously sweet and opulent - served from a half bottle

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  12/14/2023 - W75 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Hmm, yes, of course, it’s rieussec, and it’s a great vintage for Sauternes and here we have a Sauternes that fulfills anything that can be expected from a great Château in a great vintage……but if things are that „perfect“ I miss a bit of the „special“ impression rieussec gave me so often. And I had glorious moments with the 88, 03 and of course the 99. to me this is a „modern style“ of rieussec everyone will surely love. But: rieussec can be so much more. And to experience this the 2011 is not developed enough; although and without any doubt it has the potential to be overwhelming in 10 to 20 years. But to me, for now, I would choose another vintage to really experience the magic of rieussec. In other words: buy, store….and wait;) (it’s a 92 plus)

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