2014 d'Yquem Ygrec
Reviewed by Neal Martin
Issue Date 30th Jun 2016
Source 225, The Wine Advocate
Rating 93 points ←素晴らしい評価です
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2017-2035 ←飲み頃ですよ
The 2014 Ygrec is a blend of 75% Sauvignon Blanc and 25% Semillon with seven grams per liter of residual sugar. It has an attractive nose with scents of nettle, dandelion, gooseberry and grass clippings, the Semillon taking a back seat to the Sauvignon Blanc at the moment. The palate is very well balanced with the 20% new oak nicely integrated (the remainder is matured in two-year-old Yquem barrels). It is very refined with lovely passion fruit and kumquat notes towards the second half where finally the Semillon makes its presence felt, with touches of brioche and lemongrass developing in the glass. What a gorgeous Ygrec.
2006 d'Yquem
The Wine Advocate
RP 98
Reviewed by:Yohan Castaing
Release Price:NA
Drink Date:2023 - 2065
A monumental bottle of Sauternes despite a moderate level of residual sugar (122 grams per liter), the 2006 d'Yquem displays a singular, distinctive and elegant bouquet with aromas of thyme, sage, curry, baked pineapple and oregano. Full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, it’s rich and concentrated, with superb acidity on the mid-palate as well as freshness, tension and crystalline texture, concluding on an endless, ethereal finish with a racy bitterness. Simply stunning!
貴腐ワインの最高峰、「シャトー・ディケム」と同じ究極のこだわりをもってリリースされる辛口白ワイン。
力強く芳醇で高貴な味わいです。
2015 d'Yquem • Ygrec
Reviewed by Neal Martin
Issue Date 28th Apr 2017
Source 230, The Wine Advocate
Rating 92p
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2023 - 2040 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
No, not a 2016, but since it is the vintage currently for sale, then I will publish my review of the 2015 Ygrec here. The Sauvignon Blanc (75% of the blend) was picked quickly from 25-27 August this year, the Sémillon on 3 and 4 September. It has six grams per liter of residual sugar and the pH, a sizzling 3.20. It has an intriguing bouquet of melted wax, white flowers and hints of sea spray, that marine influence becoming quite strong with aeration. The palate is fresh on the entry with fresh ginger and lemongrass, lively in the mouth with shades of orange rind and sour lemon towards the persistent finish. I would afford this several years in bottle and I suspect you will end up with a very distinctive dry Bordeaux from the most famous Sauternes estate.
100点満点の評価を受けた、世界最高の貴腐ワイン! 人生のご褒美として1本キープして下さいませ♪ 飲み頃は今後40年は続きますから ワインセラーがあれば安心してキープできます。
2009 Chateau d'Yquem
Reviewed by Neal Martin
Issue Date 26th Jun 2014
Source 213, The Wine Advocate
Rating 100points ←パーフェクトです
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2014 - 2060 ←既に飲み頃に入っております
Served from an ex-chateau bottle. The 2009 Chateau d’Yquem is one showstopper of a wine and perhaps it is only in a vertical that you realize this is up there among the legendary wines of the past ? the 2001 included. It has a wonderful nose that expresses the Semillon component majestically: heady aromas of lemon curd, nectarine, jasmine and honeysuckle that all gain momentum in the glass. The oak is supremely well-integrated. The palate is extremely well-balanced with an unctuous entry. You are immediately knocked sideways by the palpable weight and volume in the mouth, which is almost “bulbous,” with layer upon layer of heavily botrytized fruit. It builds to a spicy finish with hints of marzipan and pralines in the background that lend it an untrammeled sense of exoticism. The 2009 is utterly fabulous and decadent, a star that will blaze brightly and undimmed for many years. Drink now-2060+. Tasted March 2014.
100点満点の評価を受けた、世界最高の貴腐ワイン! 人生のご褒美として1本キープして下さいませ♪
飲み頃は今後40年は続きますから ワインセラーがあれば安心してキープできます。
2009 Chateau d'Yquem
Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Issue Date 15th Mar 2019
Source March 2019 Week 2, The Wine Advocate
Rating 100p ←パーフェクトです
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2022 - 2069 ←既に飲み頃に入っております
Pale to medium gold colored, the 2009 d'Yquem bursts from the glass with gregarious crème caramel, allspice, dried apricots, mandarin peel and pineapple upside down cake scents plus a fragrant undercurrent of fungi, acacia honey, candied ginger, musk perfume and frangipani. Full-bodied and full-on hedonic in the mouth, the rich, tightly wound layers are still amazingly youthful with bags of citrus sparks and an incredibly long, perfumed finish. Possessing a residual sugar of 157 grams per liter and 13.6% alcohol as well as a laser-focused line of freshness, the rock-solid structure and through-the-roof opulence here is simply mind blowing. Pure perfection.
2008 Chateau d'Yquem
Chateau d'Yquem visit the producerA Sauternes Blend Sweet White Dessert wine from France, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France
Wine Advocate #199(Feb 2012)
Reviewer: Neal Martin
Rating: 96points ←素晴らしい評価です
Drink: N/A
Current (Release) Cost: $156-$335
Tasted single blind against its peers. The Yquem 2008 is easy to spot in a blind line-up: it is (to quote Tina Turner) simply the best. It has a subtle, delicate but very pretty bouquet with fine definition and astounding minerality. The palate is beautifully poised, tense and tightly coiled on the entry and then it just explodes in the mouth with pure, unbridled, joyous botrytized fruit struck through with a silver thread of acidity. It displays exemplary tension and freshness, along with great persistency in the mouth. This is an outstanding Sauternes 2008 and another impressive Yquem. Tasted January 2012.
1989 d'Yquem
Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Issue Date 31st Aug 2019
Source Issue 244 End of August 2019, The Wine Advocate
Rating 97 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2019 - 2040
Notable for being a very hot Bordeaux vintage, 1989 is also the year that the vines were hit by a violent hailstorm in July, which damaged the western half of the vineyard. Since the berries were still quite small and hard at that stage, the impact was minimized to about 20% crop loss overall. Thereafter, the vines soldiered on to produce a stunningly concentrated crop this year.
2003 Chateau d'Yquem
Rating 96 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2019 - 2049
Reviewed by Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Issue Date 31st Aug 2019
Source Issue 244 End of August 2019, The Wine Advocate
The average June temperature for 2003 was the warmest ever recorded at Yquem since they installed their first weather station in 1896. And things were only just starting to heat up. This notoriously hot vintage nonetheless produced some very pleasant Bordeaux surprises, Yquem being one. As readers can guess, obtaining the necessary sugar levels was not the problem this year. If it was a question of sugar alone, berries could well have been harvested in August. But come September, the wait was on for the botrytis. Fortunately, a little rain beginning on the 5th of September kick-started proceedings, and with the help of continued warm temperatures, the noble rot took off like a rocket! After this, frenetic harvesting and strict selection ensued. Harvest was over in a record nine days, resulting in a super rich, concentrated and full botrytized expression that beautifully does justice to both the vintage and to Yquem.
2014 d'Yquem
Reviewed by Neal Martin
Issue Date 30th Apr 2015
Source 218, The Wine Advocate
Rating 96 - 98 points ←超素晴らしい評価です
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2019-2070 ←飲み頃を迎えています
The Chateau Yquem 2014 was picked over 9 weeks this year, with one-quarter of the grapes picked prior to 15 September. It delivers 134 grams per liter residual sugar and 7.3 grams per liter tartaric acid, with a pH 3.60. It has a captivating bouquet (I know...I know...what else were you expecting) But it entrances with its pure, wild honey notes mixed with almond and white chocolate scents, bestowed with beguiling delineation and focus. The palate is very poised with the acidity nigh on perfect. Occasionally an Yquem only reveals its components parts at this early juncture, necessitates conjecture. However the 2014 has a sense of harmony and completeness already, as if the elevage is merely there to usher it on to it finished state. There is undeniably great depth here, perhaps less conspicuous than other vintages because of that silver thread of acidity: notes of lemon sherbet, orange zest, shaved ginger and again, a few "flakes' of white chocolate. It is extremely long with tenderness rather than power on the finish. It's not quite up there in the rarefied heights of say, the 2001 or 2009, but it is what we call in the trade, "the business."