Tasting Notes from 'Château d'Yquem'

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White - Sweet/Dessert	1955 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Jeremy Holmes's profile Report Issue 5/14/2024 - Jeremy Holmes wrote: NR The nose simply draws you in with notes of cumquat, honey, lanolin and vanilla. The palate is multi-layered and possesses the perfect amount of sweetness. It is rich and heady, yet detailed and precise. Structural elements support and the finish is expansive and so persistent. A wonderful bottle. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1998 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View rossi.wine's profile Report Issue 5/13/2024 - rossi.wine wrote: 95 points From 375ml. Nicely evolved in terms of colour. Expressive nose, medicinal notes, apricot, botrytis spice, caramel. Quite savoury on the palate, great acidity, good mouthfeel, great balance and depth. Persistent and vibrant finish. Delicious. 94-96 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1997 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Burgundy Al's profile Report Issue 5/12/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 points 375ml bottle with perfect fill. Dried and fresh apricot comes across as rich and sweet, perhaps not the most complex vintage ever of d'Yquem, but old enough that complexity is coming through nicely. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2016 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Frijole's profile Report Issue 5/12/2024 - Frijole wrote: NR gold, lots of clarity, silvery hue Nose: mango, guava, honey, white flowers, lemon, orange peel, caramel Pal: mango, guava, honey, white flowers, oranges, honey, caramel Feel: full, waxy Finish: long T8 Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2016 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View trumpet60201's profile Report Issue 5/12/2024 - trumpet60201 Likes this wine: 96 points A wonderful and complete wine. So elegant - no rough edges. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1988 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View gparker777's profile Report Issue 5/11/2024 - gparker777 Likes this wine: 93 points wine displayed a deep amber color in the glass. About an hour after opening, offering aromas of honey, apricot, and beeswax. The flavors were well-balanced, showing a consistent quality throughout the palate, especially as it continues to reveal different nuances over time. The finish was long and memorable, highlighting the quality of this vintage. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1991 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View mick978@gmail.com's profile Report Issue 5/11/2024 - mick978@gmail.com Likes this wine: 99 points Magnum Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1988 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View dream's profile Report Issue 5/11/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 95 points Out of half-bottle, this is simply a beautiful vintage of Yquem with great complexity and elegance. So balanced and refined with just the right touch of sweetness and fabulous Yquem flavors of salty caramel, red berries and clove spice. However, this vintage, at least out of half-bottle, has reached a perfect level of maturity and this won't have the staying power of say the '75, '83 or '89 so drink up! 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1996 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View vetlehs's profile Report Issue 5/8/2024 - vetlehs Likes this wine: 95 points Deep amber. Pronounced with aromas of dried apricots, dried mango, raisins, baked citrus, french boulangerie, croissants, pastry, caramel, honey, almonds, hazelnuts, marzipan, chocolate. Sweet, high acidity, low alcohol, full bodied. Pronounced with taste of dried apricots and mango, raisins, baked citrus, orange peel, croissants, bread crust, caramel, honey, almonds, marzipan, hazelnuts and chocolate. Very very long. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1967 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View glou.sf's profile Report Issue 5/4/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 98 points Deep and complex nose with apricots, honey, and orange as the key components. Impeccably balanced palate with good acidity, only moderate sweetness, more orange and some lemon flavors, apricot, hay, honey, and caramel. Very long finish. A fantastic experience! Surprisingly youthful and elegant, it feels like the wine needs another couple of decades to show its best. Pure class. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1990 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View NickA's profile Report Issue 5/8/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 points "Rousseau is for drinking" (La Trompette): Based on my scores, this keeps getting better and better! Deep and creamy yet also seamless and elegant, with enough vanilla biscuit and toffee apple to make a delicious dessert wine, and a sense of easy poise that made it simply great to drink as well. Well-evolved in a soft, honeyed register, and without the aggressive marmalade or cloying spice often found on Sauternes of this age; if I were to be picky, I might observe that it was almost too well-balanced! 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1997 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View evanqian's profile Report Issue 3/29/2024 - evanqian wrote: 95 points Night of sweet wines with Lianzijia (Newmarket, Auckland): from 750ml bottle. dark with brown hue. marmalade, apricot jam, honeysuckle and caramel, with a little nut and crème brûlée, dense texture, sufficient acidity to support a large-scale and balanced structure, good on density and length. It's a bit oxidised, having some port-like flavours, which is not favoured, however, in a rare chance to taste a 27-year-old d'Yquem, how can I expect freshness, I accept it as a flavour of age. Alc 13.9%, TA 4.8 g/L, RS 120 g/L Ap 5/5, Ar 12/15, Palate 18/20, Overall 5+5/10 Total 95/100 NM 93 (Vinous 04/2022) RH 17.5 (JR 02/2020) LPB 95 (WA 08/2019) JM 96 (WS 11/2014) RP 96 (WA 04/2003) JS 95 (WS 04/2003) 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2020 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Burgundy Al's profile Report Issue 5/5/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: NR Pausing for the Cause Fundraiser and Dinner (Obelix - Chicago IL): Small taste. Absolutely delicious, and absolutely a decade too young. Precocious but approachable, even if not showing much of the nuance that will certainly emerge with cellar time. But lots of depth, great 94-95+ point potential. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2014 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View JLCFan's profile Report Issue 5/6/2024 - JLCFan Likes this wine: 94 points Delicious, bright acidity and nice tropical notes. It has a liveliness of fruit that sets it apart from its lessers. Intense while still being balanced, really impressive. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2013 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View happyhyrax's profile Report Issue 5/6/2024 - happyhyrax Likes this wine: 95 points Had some a few weeks ago for my birthday from Coravin and finished off the bottle this eve. It’s really lovely - a bit more developed in colour and depth since the last bottle we opened 18 months ago. I think it’s prob in a bit of an in between phase. I love young sweet wine and old sweet wine - I think this probably is just somewhere a bit too in the middle at the moment, if that makes sense 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1983 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Cailles's profile Report Issue 5/5/2024 - Cailles wrote: 98 points This bottle is the finest 83 Yquem I've tasted so far and ranks among the best Sauternes I've experienced. This particular bottle showed more development than typical for its vintage, offering a preview of what this vintage may provide in future decades. Very close to perfection. TN: Dark golden color. This wine is open and expressive from the go, improving with an hour in the decanter. It features a complex, layered array of dense, sweet fruits like orange, apricot, and quince, enriched with brioche, spices, saffron, toffee, and tea. The complexity is off the charts. Each aroma is distinctly delineated, supported by a spine of acidity that perfectly balances the sweetness, ensuring the wine feels neither heavy nor cloying. The overall balance is perfect. Decanting: 1-2 hours in the decanter should be sufficient. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1967 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View aagrawal's profile Report Issue 5/4/2024 - aagrawal wrote: 96 points Dinner with the wine group (Los Gatos): Burnished orange, lighter than my previous half bottle of 1967; aromatic, orange, caramel, saffron, spice; palate is full bodied, youthful, still some residual sweetness, some orange marmalade fruit, minerality, some spice; long finish. This is far more youthful than my half-bottle of this a few years ago, and this tastes like it could still evolve for two decades or longer. This is a phenomenal Sauternes, but it needs more age (decades) to reach the peak of the last half bottle I opened. 96++ 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1983 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View viniferatu's profile Report Issue 5/3/2024 - viniferatu Likes this wine: NR fantastic wine, but what do you expect from d'Yquem... apricot preserves, spring flowers, marmalade, mushrooms, petrichor, long and complex finish, Sauternes is not always my cup of tea, but this is fabulous, and not too cloying and sweet, loved it Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1975 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Gollum's profile Report Issue 4/27/2024 - Gollum wrote: 92 points it looked tired and flat because the cork no longer sat optimally and fell into the bottle. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2001 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View ricard's profile Report Issue 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. 7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	2015 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View remyworldpeace's profile Report Issue 4/24/2024 - remyworldpeace Likes this wine: 95 points Apricot, pineapple, yellow melon and honeysuckle on the nose. Wonderful elegant palate with the above along with some mandarin orange, almond etc. Still young but already with wonderful balance and depth. Yquem is legendary for a reason. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1999 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View Tao's profile Report Issue 4/30/2024 - Tao wrote: 94 points Please read my previous tasting notes! A firm favourite! Thank You Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1989 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View DougLee's profile Report Issue 4/28/2024 - DougLee wrote: 93 points Medium to dark amber. Nose of perfumed apricot, honeycomb, stone, bruised apple. Complex, fresh layers of butterscotch, peach, apricot, and caramel cascading across the tongue. Sweet but not cloying, with exceptional delineation and detail. Long finish of white peach, vanilla, and steely apricot. A happy conclusion to a family birthday party. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1998 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View jviz's profile Report Issue 4/28/2024 - jviz Likes this wine: 95 points Another lovely experience with the 1998 Yquem. It continues to develop slowly, with a really intense note of nectarine. Mango, pineapple, apricot, honey, ginger, and fine herbs are all found. It married incredibly well with a 12 month Comte and a salty Brie de Meaux. So good 4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment
White - Sweet/Dessert	1988 Château d'Yquem Sauternes Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend more	Options Post a Comment View NoTrollingerPlease's profile Report Issue 4/27/2024 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: NR Mystery wine evening (@Private location): * only for my memory, no detailed note or rating * Glass: Spiegelau Definition Bordeaux Tasted double blind, decanted. From 0,75 bottle. Probably not the best bottle, nose not that expressive. On the palate classic Yquem elegance and length, but not the usual tension. Nevertheless very joyful 👍 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

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1955 Château d'Yquem

5/14/2024 - Jeremy Holmes wrote: NR

1998 Château d'Yquem

5/13/2024 - rossi.wine wrote: 95 points

1997 Château d'Yquem

5/12/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 points

2016 Château d'Yquem

5/12/2024 - Frijole wrote: NR

2016 Château d'Yquem

5/12/2024 - trumpet60201 Likes this wine: 96 points

1988 Château d'Yquem

5/11/2024 - gparker777 Likes this wine: 93 points

1991 Château d'Yquem

5/11/2024 - mick978@gmail.com Likes this wine: 99 points

1988 Château d'Yquem

5/11/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 95 points

1996 Château d'Yquem

5/8/2024 - vetlehs Likes this wine: 95 points

1967 Château d'Yquem

5/4/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 98 points

1990 Château d'Yquem

5/8/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 points

1997 Château d'Yquem

3/29/2024 - evanqian wrote: 95 points

2020 Château d'Yquem

5/5/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: NR

2014 Château d'Yquem

5/6/2024 - JLCFan Likes this wine: 94 points

2013 Château d'Yquem

5/6/2024 - happyhyrax Likes this wine: 95 points

1983 Château d'Yquem

5/5/2024 - Cailles wrote: 98 points

1967 Château d'Yquem

5/4/2024 - aagrawal wrote: 96 points

1983 Château d'Yquem

5/3/2024 - viniferatu Likes this wine: NR

1975 Château d'Yquem

4/27/2024 - Gollum wrote: 92 points

2001 Château d'Yquem

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

2015 Château d'Yquem

4/24/2024 - remyworldpeace Likes this wine: 95 points

1999 Château d'Yquem

4/30/2024 - Tao wrote: 94 points

1989 Château d'Yquem

4/28/2024 - DougLee wrote: 93 points

1998 Château d'Yquem

4/28/2024 - jviz Likes this wine: 95 points

1988 Château d'Yquem

4/27/2024 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: NR

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