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Château d'Yquem Premier Cru Supérieur Sauternes 2008

Reviews

97 -Wine Enthusiast -

97 -The Wine Independent -

A blend of 90% Semillon and 10% Sauvignon Blanc, with 139 grams per liter of residual sugar and a pH of 3.7, the 2008 Yquem is pale to medium gold in color. It leaps from the glass with vivacious notes of lemon marmalade, quince paste, and kiwi fruit, leading to suggestions of lemongrass, wet slate, almond croissant, and fallen leaves. The palate is completely coated with citrus and tropical fruit layers, supported by fantastic tension and a satiny texture, finishing long and electric.

95 -Vinous -

Bright light gold. Ripe cling peach, fresh apricot, spices, coconut, minerals and white flowers on the nose, with a note of vanillin oak emerging with air; subdued but wonderfully pure and precise. At once thick and light on its feet, showing an utterly seamless texture and compelling sweetness but also lovely inner-mouth tension thanks to its suave acidity and underlying minerality. The new oak element is in harmony with the wine's fruit already. Really dusts the palate on the back end and builds inexorably. The explosive finish leaves behind a perfumed spice character. The clear star in my 2008 tasting.

94 -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

The 2008 d'Yquem reveals a complex, elegant bouquet with aromas of pineapple, exotic fruits, quince and orchard fruits, followed by both a balanced and medium to full-bodied palate, seamless and layered texture and a penetrating, fresh and delicate finish. With 139 grams of residual sugar, this is a classic d'Yquem that has real potential to improve in the cellar over the next 10 years.

94 -Wine Spectator -

94 -Falstaff -

Light yellow gold with fine silver reflections. Fine blossom honey, underlaid with candied orange zest, a hint of coconut and dried herbs. There's some ripe yellow stone fruit notes in the very clear bouquet too. The palate has medium complexity of almost delicate, light-footed fruit such as ripe peach and pineapple notes. It's finely structured and accented by lemony notes. Feels incredibly harmonious and could be drunk immediately - a silky, slender Yquem that scores with good length. A vin de plaisir.

93 -Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider -

Light in color and in weight, this vintage of Chateau d'Yquem wine offers with a nose of flowers, honey, apricots and pineapple. Medium bodied, with zesty acidity, this lighter style of Sauternes feels more like a Barsac on the palate. It lacks the weight, density and concentration of a great Yquem. The finish ends with fresh orange rind, pineapple, roasted nuts and apricots lightly drizzled with honey. For the price Chateau d'Yquem is selling for, I want to be blown away when I taste the wine. 2008 d'Yquem is a nice wine, and it repsents what was possible with the vintage. But that's not what I want or expect for this much money or from Chateau d'Yquem.

Technical Details

Blend 90% Sémillon, 10% Sauvignon Blanc
Winemaker Sandrine Garbay
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Graves
Appellation Sauternes
Vineyard Estate Vineyards of Château d'Yquem, Premier Cru Supérieur
Farming Method Sustainable Practices
Oak 100% new French oak barrels
Aging / Cooperage 30 months
Alcohol 13.5%
Production 10,000 cases

Château d'Yquem Premier Cru Supérieur Sauternes 2008

Name: Château d'Yquem Premier Cru Supérieur Sauternes 2008
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1014689
Price: 279.0 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

White Bordeaux Blends | Bordeaux

WE97, TWI97, VN95, WA94, WS94, FS94, JL93

Sustainable Practices

$550.00

$279.00

750ML

49% OFF RETAIL!

Château d'Yquem dates back to the middle ages, and the King of England, Richard I, once owned the estate in the late 12th century. He praised the high quality of its wines, which were already then famous, before the estate passed hands of ownership several times until the 18th century, when the Lur-Saluces family purchased it. They ran the Château for more than 200 years, further enhancing the property’s reputation for some of the finest sweet wines in the world. Since 1999, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, a luxury goods conglomerate, has run the Château, which covers 125 hectares of some of the most exquisite terroir in Sauternes, growing a mix of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. The soils are famous for their unique blue clay qualities (also known as “mystique clay”), which helps regulate moisture levels in the vineyard to pristinely develop botrytis’ noble rot – the fungus that contributes to the famous flavor profile of Château d'Yquem’s portfolio of luxury sweet wines.

The 2008 comes from a cool season that cranked up the acidity, and it practically hums. Vibrant, laser-focused, and zinging with lemon curd, white peach, and a crisp mineral snap. Serious concentration, seriously smart price. Widely considered the sleeper value of Yquem's 2000s run.

About The Producer

The history of Château d’Yquem is like a novel, an epic saga full of events and colourful personalities spanning more than four centuries. Château d’Yquem is not only the most famous chateau in Sauternes today, the estate has possessed an exalted reputation dating back to the middle ages when d’Yquem was owned by the King of England. Today the estate is owned by the infamous luxury brand Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton who have made significant re-investment into the property. Yquem is in a class of their own, quite literally, in the classification of 1855, it was given a unique classification of Premier Cru Superieur", because it so clearly stood above all other Château.

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