2001 Château de Fargues

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  1/6/2024 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 96 Points

  $100+ Tasting (Liz's House): PnP - Gotta love 2001 Sauternes....arguably the best year ever! The 2001 de Fargues is no exception and showcases this remarkable vintage!
  
  Nose: Some petrol, lots of orange peel, apricot and honeycomb with hints of spice.
  
  Palate: orange creamsicle with honeyed stone fruits (peach and apricot) and shades of creamy caramel on the finish. Very nice! Enough acidity to not only keep the fruit alive, but to keep the sugar and sweetness in check. Impeccable balance!
  
  95+ to 96 and an outstanding Sauternes from an unbelievable vintage that is showing well now.

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  1/6/2024 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 94 Points

  Liz's Annual $100 Plus Tasting (Minneapolis, MN): Thank you Jason. This is amazing stuff. Apricots, mango, spices, floral, honey and honey suckles. Beautiful finish. Great wine.

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  12/3/2023 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Sauternes Chinese Banquet Dinner: Beautiful burnished light gold. Soaring, complex aromas. Elegant, less sweet, and very complex in the mouth with great acidity, some pineapple, and uplifting orange. I loved this as I have every time I've tasted it.

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  12/3/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 95 Points

  All Sauternes, All Night (R & G Lounge, SF): Wonderful and memorable, perhaps a half step behind the '01 Suduiraut tonight, perhaps only because it's more introspective. Really deserves to be contemplated on it's own; I suspect it shows its best when not in a crowded field of loud voices. Moderately unctuous, with saffon, marmalade, some mature secondary notes of burnt caramel and signs the sweetness level is dropping. Very sophisticated.

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  12/3/2023 - aagrawal wrote: 96 Points

  All-sauternes dinner; 12/2/2023-12/3/2023 (R&G Lounge, San Francisco): Golden-orange; aromatic, saffron, spices, great complexity; palate is medium-full bodied, lovely complexity, some tertiary but still with plenty of freshness; long finish. 96+
  In comparison to the '01 Suduiraut, the Fargues was showing more maturity, more interest for drinking now, though the Suduiraut showed more stuffing for future growth over decades.

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