Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes 2019 375ml

While the wine is not ultrarich in texture, it is beautifully balanced between zesty citrus and plenty of serious botrytis and honey flavors. Showing a delicious orange marmalade character, it is ready for aging.

The flagship Sauternes, the 2019 Château Suduiraut is 94% Semillon and 6% Sauvignon Blanc brought up in 50% new French oak. A stunning bouquet of caramelized peach, orange marmalade, honey, lavender, and citrus pith gives way to a medium to full-bodied Sauternes with impressive sweetness, a rich, expansive mouthfeel, and a vibrant spine of freshness that keeps it lively and balanced.

Dried pineapple, apricot, fig and acacia honey on the nose. Some stem ginger and lemon pie, too. Sweet and luscious with dried fruit that’s layered with toast and spice. Fantastic concentration and length.

The 2019 Suduiraut stands out as one of the most comprehensive and impeccably crafted wines from the Sauternes region in this solar vintage. Offering up a complex, spicy bouquet of curry leaf, cardamon, white pepper, ripe orchard fruits and menthol mingled with touches of vanilla pod and pineapple, followed by a medium to full-bodied, round and gourmand palate, it’s also concentrated and rich with a perfumed, fleshy core of fruit that segues into a long, mineral and ethereal finish. This blend of 94% Sémillon and 6% Sauvignon Blanc.