Appellations

Suduiraut 2018

Sauternes/Barsac, First Growth Sauternes

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Tasting Notes

There’s not much of the 2018 Château Suduiraut to go around but it’s a beautiful wine. Lovely orange blossom, honeyed apricots, white flowers, and subtle spice aromas and flavors all emerge from this full-bodied, decadent Sauternes that has a layered, pure, beautifully balanced profile. With good complexity, terrific balance, and a clean finish, it’s going to shine for 15-20 years.

Score: 93 - 95 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Date: 01 May 2019

The pale to medium lemon-gold colored 2018 Suduiraut comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant notes of candied peel, warm pineapple, guava and key lime pie with hints of orange marmalade and beeswax. The palate is packed with power and richness, with mouth-coating tropical fruits and a long earth-laced finish.

Score: 93 - 95 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 30 April 2019

This has lots of concentration and mushroom and spice character. Plenty of botrytis. Dense and flavorful finish. Big wine for the vintage. Five hectoliters a hectare and half went into the second wine.

Score: 97 - 98 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 11 April 2019

This is an enjoyable, luxurious and indulgent Sauternes. It’s extremely rich, dark and concentrated – in keeping with its tiny yields (5hl/ha in 2018, of which 40% went into the grand vin) - with attractive bitter orange flavours that cleverly work to give tension where otherwise the low acidity might lose tension. 125g/l residual sugar. The harvest ended on 9 November.

Score: 94 Jane Anson, Decanter.com Maturity: 2022-2040 Date: 06 April 2019

This has a fairly concentrated core of dried apricot, peach and mango flavors wrapped with almond and ginger cream notes. Ample marzipan detail coats the long finish.

Score: 91 - 94 James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Date: 01 April 2019

The 2018 Suduiraut is very pretty, but also quite restrained in style. Dried flowers, mint, tangerine and apricot jam are all nicely lifted in the glass. Lightly honeyed notes, along with touches of passionfruit, mint and pineapple, add texture to the finish. In 2018, botrytis arrived only at the end of the season. The fruit was brought in on three picks. Residual sugar is 125 grams.

Score: 89 - 92 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Date: 01 April 2019