2021 Chateau Suduiraut - 1er Cru Sauternes

Decanter.com – 96 pts – GH: *Such an expressive nose as you’d expect from such tiny quantities of 1hl/ha in 2021. Candied lemon, wild honey, honey blossom and sweet orange on the nose - just smells so incredible. Sensual yet delicate, this has a real freshness and gentleness so you get a Sauternes weight and density on the mid palate but such refined edges and sense of lift. Aromas are more pronounced that expected - purity and freshness but an overwhelming sense of high definition, there is no hiding here so as well as the sucrosity you get the minerality and cinnamon edges that give the wine a real character. I love it! Sophisticated and thoughtful! 500 case production. 138g/l sugar.* - 04/2022

WeinWisser – 19+/20 pts – TW: *100% Sémillon, 5,6 g/l Säure, Restzucker 130 g/l, (nur) 1 hl/ha wurde geerntet! Betörendes Bouquet, englische Frühstücksmarmelade, Pomelo und Safran, dahinter Ananas, Mandarinenöl und Reneklodenkompott. Am öligen Gaumen, cremige Textur, betörende Extraktfülle und molliger Körper. Im konzentrierten aromatischen Finale eine ungeheure Vielschichtigkeit: Mango, Passionsfrucht und weiße Mousse au Chocolat. Auf keinen Fall verpassen, das wird eine gesuchte Sauternes-Rarität!* – 06/2022

JancisRobinson.com – 18+/20pts – JL: *100% Sémillon. 1 hl/ha mainly from a second tri on 7 October. RS 138 g/l. Cask sample. Straw yellow colour. Complex and multi-layered with incredible balance and freshness. Intense and richly botrytised on the nose with marmalade, honey and floral notes. Palate rich and pure but matched by a line of pithy acidity that gives it balance and great length. A real elixir but beware, there’s not much to go around.* - 04/2022