CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929
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1929

CHÂTEAU D’YQUEM 1929

Wine 1929 1er Cru Classé Supérieur  Bordeaux Sauternes

Note from the chateau: A very dry year, becoming increasingly hot, scorching even in September with 14 days at +30°C; the harvest is easy and uninterrupted, the only risk is to see the degree reach peaks, we are approaching 26 degrees of potential alcohol. A monument of power, wealth and a deep amber color that sets it apart from afar.

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100 / 100 Rated by 6 experts

Condition : Good

Info : Recorked at the chateau in 1996

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Info : Vintage difficult to read but readable on the cork and capsule. Recorked at the chateau in 1996

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100 / 100
Cellar Tracker June - 2023
Cellar Tracker
Top shoulder level and with fully wet but solid cork. Where does one begin to describe this and even more how does one rate it. Dark in colour and shines through the early century whiter than normal bottle with all the hand made flaws ( the bottle is itself a story) . Rich but with impressive acidity, rich apricot, honey. An exceptional experience and albeit one can argue about the wine the experience and the emotion it invokes can only be described as perfect.
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97 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider October - 2018
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Mahogany in color, the nose showed off its caramel, butterscotch, orange rind, cooked apricot, spice and cocoa dusted orange tinted, tropical fruit character with ease. The wine still had viscosity and sweetness. I am not sure this was a perfect bottle as the color seemed a bit too dark. I imagine a better stored bottle would be off the charts!
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97 / 100
Wine Spectator May - 1999
Wine Spectator
Recorked in 1994. Lacks a bit of harmony, but shows good ripeness and crème brûlée character along with some drying cedar notes. Also delivers intense spice, chocolate, mocha and dried apricot flavors.
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97 / 100
Autre May - 2008
Autre
Gismondi On Wine : 29 Mon dieu, mon dieu, mon dieu, sighed Pierre Lurton upon smelling his glass of '29. It was a dry summer with temperatures above 30 degrees. September was hot and very dry. The harvest started 20 September and lasted 19 days. It was a rich year with potential alcohol estimated at 22 degrees about the maximum for d'Yquem if you want the fermentation to work well according to Lurton. Cocoa and honeyed fruit in an otherwise complex and sophisticated nose. It's fat and sweet on the palate but with high acidity and it is really showing its youth. Seems 20 years younger. A sublime experience. Very impressive.
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Jancis Robinson November - 2021
Jancis Robinson
Shaded dark reddish brown. According to Richard Olney, who wrote the famous monograph on Yquem, this wine was always mahogany coloured. So dense! Hambleton Hall's sommelier Dominique Baduel suggests it’s like liquorice. Sweet, almost coconut nose. Very big, sweet but with lots of acidity. Macerated plums and extraordinarily fresh. No sign of any oxidation. Very slightly chewy on the end.
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5 / 5
Michael Broadbent January - 1998
Michael Broadbent
Sheer perfection on all but one of several memorable occasions. To summarize, slight coulour variation though mostly a deep, rich amber, some a rose-tinted tawny...always sweet never seeming to dry out, its flavour being a concentration of peaches and cream, apricots,peeled sultanas, sometimes slightly chocolately, with great length and exquisite aftertaste.
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Vintage Wine  1929
Classification Sauternes - 1er Cru Classé Supérieur 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Sauternes
Colour Sweet white wine
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Château Château d'Yquem
Château d'Yquem
Château d'Yquem

The Château d'Yquem is an area of 133 hectares including 113 hectares of vineyards, 102 acres operated, south of Bordeaux in Sauternes region that produces a sweet white wine ranked Premier Cru Superior, the only wine from the Sauternes category.

It is considered by many as the best Sauternes. The yield is only 6 hectoliters per hectare and in some years, if the quality is not deemed sufficient, the bottles are not sold under this label.

The wines are characterized by their complexity due to a significant amount of residual sugar and flavorings made by Botrytis cinerea. A relatively high acidity helps offset the sweetness. Another characteristic for which Château d'Yquem is known is his longevity. In good years does present a bottle of his outstanding after one or two decades in a cellar and with care it will keep for a century or more, adding to the complexity...

Since 1959 Chateau d'Yquem produces a dry white wine named "Y" (and before 2004 "Y Lur-Saluces") makes an equal proportion of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. This wine, like great wine is not produced every year. The 2005 vintage was the first vintage of Yquem offered for sale en primeur. 

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