Offering a far stronger showing than the last bottle of 37 Yquem, this example displays much more complexity. This bottle offers what is arguably the essence of any great sweet wine - superb tension, both between sweetness and acid as well as between tertiary flavors and freshness. With a nose full of rough cut marmalade, citrus, brioche, mushroom, and almond, it’s hard to put the glass down.
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I really wanted to love this - particularly after finding out what it was - but I didn’t find much complexity here. This does offer treacle, apricot, and a slightly brûléed note which is quite pleasant, transitioning to a fine, lingering sweetness on the finish.
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The nose mirrors the dark amber color of this particular bottle, with an intense nose of rough-cut marmalade, creme brulee crust, toffee, ginger snap, and sultana. Zippy acidity and lush textures make this a pleasure to drink.
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SLDS at Quay: Caramel coloured. Coffee, earth, creme brulee, apricot, coconut and mandarin on the nose. The palate shows off toffee sweetness, but maintains its drive beautifully. Truly excellent wine with many years left based on this bottle.
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Quelle chance de pouvoir goûter à ce vin. Le niveau est encore beau et la couleur est devenue ambrée. Le bouchon était encore en bonne forme et fut relativement facile à enlever. Le nez est sublime et nous permet de nous transcender dans un autre monde tant il est expressif. Des notes de marmelade, de caramel, de crème brûlée, de coconut. Il est encore très vivant et a beaucoup de matière. Cette bouteille aurait facilement pu se rendre jusqu’à son 100ième anniversaire. Un grand moment.
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The Fifteenth Annual Stonefields Wine Tasting Dinner for Charity (Guelph, Ontario, Canada): Deep Amber colour Nose is explosive....orange marmalade, sticky toffee pudding, orange rind, creme brûlée, candied flowers, earth and and subtle note of cocoa. Palate is so unctuous...orange marmalade, burnt brûlée, roasted buts, asian spice, honey, orange toffee, cocoa and a hundred other flavours. Finish is long, lush, and expansive. Stunning wine.
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A perfect bottle of my friend Thomas Helling. All words can't describe the feeling. We had it together with foie gras, cheese and dessert. Fantastic in all ways. It was all the time a giant but with such a balanced acidity. Always fresh with never ending finish.
Malt, nougat, bittersweet chocolate, dried fruits as figs, dates, apricot and peaches, brioche, bread crust, some sea salt, herbals and always some citrus, alcohol perfectly integrated, will survive at least 30 more years
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Amber in color, the perfume is striking with its crème brulee, orange, caramel, floral, butterscotch, earth, honey, cocoa and hint of chocolate. Concentrated, sweet, fresh, lush, silky and deep, the wine is rich, sweet, long and still delivering its voluptuous goods at close to 80 years of age. The finish keeps on going. Amazingly, 3 days later, the empty bottle was still serving up the same intoxicating nose.
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Rum, creme brulee, candied sugar, black tea. This is soooo rich and soooo opulent. It just doesn't quit. An amazing wine! He only thing that kept it off the 100 mark was that the nose was just shy of the experience in the palate.
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As the wine warmed out of its chilly pouring temperature, hints of weak coffee, caramel, honey, and pollen wafted out of the glass, each inserting a complex element over the primary scent of what I must describe as eucalyptus tea. That eucalyptus-tea note carried through as the first taste as my sip spread across my mouth and up through my sinuses. Orange marmalade and popsicle sticks resonated through the mid-palate, which faded to more subtle honey and toasted nut flavors. On the finish, orange blossom lingered along with something herbal, like sage. So complex and so pleasant. Easy to enjoy, yet difficult to understand. My final impression was my sense of time and the history of a bottle that must have been just bottled when Germany invaded France. A remarkable wine and a remarkable experience.
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At the tasting there were a few people very familiar with this wine and they suspected this to be a questionable bottle as the color and the flavors of the wine just did not match. The cork was branded '1937' but this bottle was purchased at an auction, so the provenance is not fully known. The wine was still great at 94pts but unlikely a 1937 D'Yquem.
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With a deep copper hue, the aromatics are explosive! Chocolate, coffee, crème brulee, orange, caramel, flowers, spice, butterscotch, earth and cocoa are revealed. Silky, velvet drenched layers of orange coated with cocoa and chocolate remain on the palate for well over 60 seconds. Chateau d’Yquem is expensive and some consumers feel when compared to other Sauternes, Chateau d’Yquem is not worth the difference in price. That is because they have never experienced a fully mature vintage of Chateau d’Yquem. At 75 years of age, this wine is still going to improve for another 25-50 or even 75 more years!
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Wow! The best sauterne I have drank. It was dark, but a see through amber. IT was very complex at the beginning, but not sweet enough for the other two who I drank it with; I thought it was sweet enough though. But, after opening up for an hour, it did become more syrupy and rich. The flavors kept evolving over the two hours we drank it. Extremely complex and smooth. Amazing.
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9/7/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 97 Points
Offering a far stronger showing than the last bottle of 37 Yquem, this example displays much more complexity. This bottle offers what is arguably the essence of any great sweet wine - superb tension, both between sweetness and acid as well as between tertiary flavors and freshness. With a nose full of rough cut marmalade, citrus, brioche, mushroom, and almond, it’s hard to put the glass down.
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8/10/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 89 Points
I really wanted to love this - particularly after finding out what it was - but I didn’t find much complexity here. This does offer treacle, apricot, and a slightly brûléed note which is quite pleasant, transitioning to a fine, lingering sweetness on the finish.
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12/28/2020 - englishman's claret wrote: 95 Points
The nose mirrors the dark amber color of this particular bottle, with an intense nose of rough-cut marmalade, creme brulee crust, toffee, ginger snap, and sultana. Zippy acidity and lush textures make this a pleasure to drink.
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6/23/2019 - CamWheeler wrote: 95 Points
SLDS at Quay: Caramel coloured. Coffee, earth, creme brulee, apricot, coconut and mandarin on the nose. The palate shows off toffee sweetness, but maintains its drive beautifully. Truly excellent wine with many years left based on this bottle.
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5/12/2018 - Vmaster007 Likes this wine: 99 Points
Quelle chance de pouvoir goûter à ce vin. Le niveau est encore beau et la couleur est devenue ambrée. Le bouchon était encore en bonne forme et fut relativement facile à enlever. Le nez est sublime et nous permet de nous transcender dans un autre monde tant il est expressif. Des notes de marmelade, de caramel, de crème brûlée, de coconut. Il est encore très vivant et a beaucoup de matière. Cette bouteille aurait facilement pu se rendre jusqu’à son 100ième anniversaire. Un grand moment.
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5/13/2017 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 96 Points
Sweet dark fig. Great wine, but a little more sweetness and a little less complexity than I want from a Yquem this age.
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12/3/2016 - Dave Canada wrote: 97 Points
The Fifteenth Annual Stonefields Wine Tasting Dinner for Charity (Guelph, Ontario, Canada): Deep Amber colour
Nose is explosive....orange marmalade, sticky toffee pudding, orange rind, creme brûlée, candied flowers, earth and and subtle note of cocoa.
Palate is so unctuous...orange marmalade, burnt brûlée, roasted buts, asian spice, honey, orange toffee, cocoa and a hundred other flavours.
Finish is long, lush, and expansive. Stunning wine.
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7/12/2016 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 100 Points
Wine Monuments Man Chapter 1 (Berens am Kai 1 star Restaurant): It was the WOTN. It was the most amazing wine I've ever had.
A perfect bottle of my friend Thomas Helling. All words can't describe the feeling. We had it together with foie gras, cheese and dessert. Fantastic in all ways. It was all the time a giant but with such a balanced acidity. Always fresh with never ending finish.
Malt, nougat, bittersweet chocolate, dried fruits as figs, dates, apricot and peaches, brioche, bread crust, some sea salt, herbals and always some citrus, alcohol perfectly integrated, will survive at least 30 more years
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11/9/2015 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points
Amber in color, the perfume is striking with its crème brulee, orange, caramel, floral, butterscotch, earth, honey, cocoa and hint of chocolate. Concentrated, sweet, fresh, lush, silky and deep, the wine is rich, sweet, long and still delivering its voluptuous goods at close to 80 years of age. The finish keeps on going. Amazingly, 3 days later, the empty bottle was still serving up the same intoxicating nose.
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5/3/2015 - G_H Likes this wine: 99 Points
Richter Raritäten Degu Volume III (Restaurant Farnsburg, Switzerland): Mamma mia, this is good!
Rum, creme brulee, candied sugar, black tea. This is soooo rich and soooo opulent. It just doesn't quit. An amazing wine! He only thing that kept it off the 100 mark was that the nose was just shy of the experience in the palate.
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2/6/2015 - misterstarre Likes this wine: 97 Points
As the wine warmed out of its chilly pouring temperature, hints of weak coffee, caramel, honey, and pollen wafted out of the glass, each inserting a complex element over the primary scent of what I must describe as eucalyptus tea. That eucalyptus-tea note carried through as the first taste as my sip spread across my mouth and up through my sinuses. Orange marmalade and popsicle sticks resonated through the mid-palate, which faded to more subtle honey and toasted nut flavors. On the finish, orange blossom lingered along with something herbal, like sage. So complex and so pleasant. Easy to enjoy, yet difficult to understand. My final impression was my sense of time and the history of a bottle that must have been just bottled when Germany invaded France. A remarkable wine and a remarkable experience.
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6/26/2013 - Wine_lvr wrote: flawed
Legendary Château D'Yquem Tasting * 1893 - 1983 * (Old Swiss House, Lucerne, Switzerland): Wow! Finally I had the legendary D'Yquem 1937 in my glass! The wine was very young looking one would never think it is a 75 year old wine.
At the tasting there were a few people very familiar with this wine and they suspected this to be a questionable bottle as the color and the flavors of the wine just did not match. The cork was branded '1937' but this bottle was purchased at an auction, so the provenance is not fully known. The wine was still great at 94pts but unlikely a 1937 D'Yquem.
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12/20/2012 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 Points
With a deep copper hue, the aromatics are explosive! Chocolate, coffee, crème brulee, orange, caramel, flowers, spice, butterscotch, earth and cocoa are revealed. Silky, velvet drenched layers of orange coated with cocoa and chocolate remain on the palate for well over 60 seconds. Chateau d’Yquem is expensive and some consumers feel when compared to other Sauternes, Chateau d’Yquem is not worth the difference in price. That is because they have never experienced a fully mature vintage of Chateau d’Yquem. At 75 years of age, this wine is still going to improve for another 25-50 or even 75 more years!
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4/13/2008 - dougie wrote: 99 Points
Wow! The best sauterne I have drank. It was dark, but a see through amber. IT was very complex at the beginning, but not sweet enough for the other two who I drank it with; I thought it was sweet enough though. But, after opening up for an hour, it did become more syrupy and rich. The flavors kept evolving over the two hours we drank it. Extremely complex and smooth. Amazing.
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