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• Winewhiskeyfood Likes this wine: 87 points

  December 19, 2021 - Dark caramel, figs, cardamom and crazy notes of ozone and oxidative characteristics

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• Fred_Bo Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 14, 2018 - GREAT bottle, top fill.
  
  Heavy acidity at the get-go. However, some air and the austere acidity subdued and became a lovely integrated part of the wine. The pineapple, canned mango and peach exploded out the glass. Some great exotic fruit and oak presented it self. Very good bottle indeed.

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• stayhappy21 wrote: 92 points

  June 22, 2018 - Drank this at Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew Cuisine to celebrate a fellow wine mate's birthday.
  
  Dark yellow turning orange and this is a classic example of a lady turning more charming and mesmerizing as she ages. Notes of ripe pears, rich honey, floral notes, sliced ginger, tangerine, caramel, lemon peels and creme brulee can be detected in the nose and palate. The freshness has almost faded from this 40 year old beauty, leaving the secondary notes and a complex and satisfying aftertaste.

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• JerM wrote: 97 points

  January 7, 2012 - (Old-world vino intro night, thanks to Paul S, et al) WOW! Wasn't quite expecting this - the intensity, freshness, textural richness, focussed minerality, and most of all, that tense, integrated balance of youthful power with delicate restraint! Thick, viscous, rich honey amber in colour. Unctious nose of peach, passionfruit, lychee and rose, along with caraway/fennel seed. Oily, yet so crisply clean! Candied ginger, over-ripe tangerine, with lingering honey and caramel, topped with mandarin zest and preserved mandarin peel. What a lovely balance! With time, there lingers light raisins, freshly baked brioche and xinjiang honey fragrant pears. Was already a stunner on its own, it paired divinely with foie gras and a beautiful melted-to-butter hunk of beef cheeks braised in a japanese sweet sauce. What a wine - wow, wow, wow, and WOW!

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• Paul S wrote: 94 points

  January 7, 2012 - Jerming's Intro to Mature Old World Wines (Kingyo, Marina Square / Pine Close): This was special. A perfectly kept Sauternes, quite at peak and paired just perfectly with a dish of beef cheek braised in a sweetish Japanese sauce and topped-off with a sliver of foie gras. It had a wonderfully complex nose, with sweet fennel and clove spice sprinkled over lots of honey and burnt caramel aromas and a nice fresh lift of something tropical - pineapples, passion fruit maybe, almost a bit of lychee creme at the side. Really nice. The palate was at a beautiful place too, with lovely melting acidity draped over beautiful flavours of tangerines and green mangoes, almost a hint of lychee and passion fruit again, all drizzled with dollops of golden honey. Wonderfully integrated, this glided away into a creamy finish with a note of brioche chased by sweet notes of candied ginger, orange blossom and a touch bittersweet burnt sugar. Beautiful stuff. Wonderfully complex, balanced and long, yet so well-integrated that it was easy to miss just how much was going on as it went down the hatch. Wow. Good on its own, it hit even greater heights as the acidity in the wine cut through the foie-gras and it emerged on the other side of a cleansed palate with its lovely complex flavours singing alongside a creamy foie aftertaste. Easily the wine of the night.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1978
• Type White - Sweet/Dessert
• Producer Château Coutet
• Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Sauternais
• Appellation Barsac

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• In Cellars 65 (63%)
• Consumed 38 (37%)

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