1960 Lur-Saluces "Y"

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  8/24/2019 - Jammy Wine Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Tasted blind and thought it was loire valley wine based on the strong botrytis flavours and dryness, Sauternes went through my mind but there was no residual sugar and I immediately dismissed Sauternes (I was wrong, they make dry wines too!). Generous botrytis nose of ripe apricots, honied pineapple, smoked wood and dried mangoes. Has some age to it, lovely complexity. 1970 Loire Valley? (90/100)

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  6/8/2013 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points

  Superbly fresh orange peels and orange blossoms. Precise and pristine with sweet smelling nose but dry saline palate.

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  5/19/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  TMM Dinner (aka d'Yquem and extras) (Absinthe, Boat Quay): This was another lovely bottle of the 1960 "Y". It had a wonderful nose, full of dried figs and apricot aromas chased by sweet smells of caramel and honey, some touches of spice and then a streak of metallic mineral. Quite, quite lovely, and a bit of a relieve after the odd Loire on the same flight. The palate elicited a “wow” on my handwritten notes. It was bright and lively, with citrusy lemon and green apple notes on the attack riding on a lovely honeyed backdrop towards the midpalate. Here, more than previous bottle we had a year back, the the wine showed a lot of Sauterne-like tones and nuances, with suggestions of sweet dried stone fruit and dulcet shades of crème brulee and caramel, but as always, it was really dry as a bone all the way from the attack into a nicely lengthy finish lined with a little mineral and seasoned with fragrant spice. This was lovely. While it may not have been fleshy and expressive as the last bottle, it seemed fresher and more focused, and boy did it go well with our oysters.

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  9/10/2012 - Alex H wrote: 90 Points

  Superbly Alive! Smells like an unripe Sauternes or a Barsac. Lots of sherry like seaspray and minerality. A bit mineral water and german Riesling trocken like. Sutle but youthful and alive. An impressive experience. This opened up and evolved and gained more orangey blossoms and apricotish notes.

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  9/9/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  The Ultimate BBC (Burg, Bordeaux and Champagne) Dinner (Absinthe, Boat Quay): One of the earliest ever vintages of the "Y", this was beautifully aged specimen that went beautifully with our cheese course. It had a wonderful nose, somewhat straddling Sauternes and Sherry, with drips of golden honey and caramel, some lanolin inflections, then slightly savoury scents of figs and browned apples, a nice touch of earthiness, and just a hint of Y'quem's toasted coconut character. I thought this was absolutely beautiful. The palate was such a surprise after that as well. Absolutely dry, it showed very juicy flavours of lemons, green apples on the attack. Each sip immersed the palate in a wonderfully bright, deliciously citrus dance, yet as the bright fruit faded away into the distance, the wine opened up on the midpalate into a subtly profound and complex mouthful with suggestions of fig and pear in its depth. While not the most complex of wines, this had a wonderful mellow gentleness wed to great focus and definition undergirding its more expressive characteristics. There was a shadow of d'Yquem at the beautiful long finish again, where a final drift of toasted coconut came out to play with the fruit. Clear family resemblance then, yet this was great in a totally different way. A beautiful wine.

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