Château d´Yquem Sauternes 2008 75 CL

The absolute king of dessert wines.

Wine experts from all over the world agree that this is pure gold in a bottle. World-class Sauternes that you have to experience while it’s still available. In other words, there’s Château d’Yquem, and then there’s all the others.

The sumptuous wines from here have reaped the magical 100 points countless times, and the wines are famous for their almost infinitely long life. At Château d’Yquem, the quality is always the absolute highest. The grapes are picked by hand, and each individual grape is assessed according to the strictest possible quality control. This means that the yield is microscopic, and each individual vine therefore only ends up producing the equivalent of one glass of wine!

In the fantastic 2008 vintage, the final blend consists of 80% Sémillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc.

About Château d’Yquem
There is Château d’Yquem – and then there are all the others when it comes to Sauternes. We give the floor to the wine critic of them all, Robert Parker: “There is no other wine in the world like it, and there is no other luxury wine that can possibly justify its price as much as Yquem. The remarkable amount of painstaking labor necessary to producing the nectar known as Yquem is almost impossible to comprehend.”

It has long been an opinion that many wine enthusiasts have had and still have. It is precisely for this reason that the castle in solitary majesty is placed at the top of the Sauternes classification. There is no compromise at Château d’Yquem – if the grape quality is not satisfactory, the grapes are sold on to other wine merchants. Better not to produce wine with the name Château d’Yquem on the label than to produce wine with a disappointing result. You are therefore sure that you get what you pay for. An unmistakably beautiful balance between intense taste and scent impressions. Complex and rich in a way that you almost become silent, go into yourself and try to let your nose, tongue, brain, heart and soul interpret what kind of beauty you have been struck by. Sweet, sour, creme brulé, apples, pears, ginger, saffron and other spices. It’s not a cheap experience, no. But if you have a bit of room in the budget, it’s an experience, it’s worth treating yourself and others you care about, just once or twice in your life. The wines can also be stored for 100 years, so you don’t have to have a special occasion to drink them right away.

Chateau d’Yquem’s perfect weather conditions
Château d’Yquem is located with vineyards on three hills around the castle itself, slightly higher than the nearby producers of Sauternes. This may help to give the château a slight advantage over the competition in what is otherwise a fairly flat area of Graves in Bordeaux. All in all, the area is absolutely perfect for the Sauternes, where the fantastic noble rot, or botrytis cinerea, plays an absolutely decisive role. Here, an almost mythical fog lies quietly over the vineyards in the morning and helps ensure the humidity needed to allow the grapes to be “attacked” by noble rot. On the other hand, it must be dry at exactly the right time, so that the grapes can dry out using the fine noble rot, but retain the sugar in the grapes. And that is also the case at Château d’Yquem, where you are doubly favored by nature. When the grapes are to be harvested, you go through the grapes in the fields as many as five times to ensure that they have reached just the right level of noble rot. where the grapes on it almost look like something between a raisin and a date – and in principle do not look very appetizing.

Acidity and sweetness
One of the things that makes Château d’Yquem so famous and sought after is the wines’ absolutely eminent balance between acidity and sweetness. You get both in meter measurements, as two equally strong powers that together create something unique. Semillon is primarily used, which by nature is very susceptible to noble rot and which in that way delivers the majority of the beautiful sweetness that is in the best sautes in the world. A large part of the acidity comes from Sauvignon Blanc, and as climate change makes the weather warmer, the amount of Sauvignon Blanc has been increased in order to preserve the fine acidity. In addition, they have gone from cask aging in completely new casks for three years to two years instead, precisely to preserve and under-roast the wine’s natural acidity. At the same time, the must is kept in steel tanks for only one night, so that it reaches the barrel as quickly as possible.

The best of the best
Château d’Yquem is undoubtedly the star when it comes to sautenes. The labels on the bottles are specially made so that they cannot be simply imitated – almost like banknotes. That way, you can be sure that you are getting a real bottle of Château d’Yquem.The absolute king of dessert wines.

Wine experts from all over the world agree that this is pure gold in a bottle. World-class Sauternes that you have to experience while it’s still available. In other words, there’s Château d’Yquem, and then there’s all the others.

The sumptuous wines from here have reaped the magical 100 points countless times, and the wines are famous for their almost infinitely long life. At Château d’Yquem, the quality is always the absolute highest. The grapes are picked by hand, and each individual grape is assessed according to the strictest possible quality control. This means that the yield is microscopic, and each individual vine therefore only ends up producing the equivalent of one glass of wine!

In the fantastic 2008 vintage, the final blend consists of 80% Sémillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc.

About Château d’Yquem
There is Château d’Yquem – and then there are all the others when it comes to Sauternes. We give the floor to the wine critic of them all, Robert Parker: “There is no other wine in the world like it, and there is no other luxury wine that can possibly justify its price as much as Yquem. The remarkable amount of painstaking labor necessary to producing the nectar known as Yquem is almost impossible to comprehend.”

It has long been an opinion that many wine enthusiasts have had and still have. It is precisely for this reason that the castle in solitary majesty is placed at the top of the Sauternes classification. There is no compromise at Château d’Yquem – if the grape quality is not satisfactory, the grapes are sold on to other wine merchants. Better not to produce wine with the name Château d’Yquem on the label than to produce wine with a disappointing result. You are therefore sure that you get what you pay for. An unmistakably beautiful balance between intense taste and scent impressions. Complex and rich in a way that you almost become silent, go into yourself and try to let your nose, tongue, brain, heart and soul interpret what kind of beauty you have been struck by. Sweet, sour, creme brulé, apples, pears, ginger, saffron and other spices. It’s not a cheap experience, no. But if you have a bit of room in the budget, it’s an experience, it’s worth treating yourself and others you care about, just once or twice in your life. The wines can also be stored for 100 years, so you don’t have to have a special occasion to drink them right away.

Chateau d’Yquem’s perfect weather conditions
Château d’Yquem is located with vineyards on three hills around the castle itself, slightly higher than the nearby producers of Sauternes. This may help to give the château a slight advantage over the competition in what is otherwise a fairly flat area of Graves in Bordeaux. All in all, the area is absolutely perfect for the Sauternes, where the fantastic noble rot, or botrytis cinerea, plays an absolutely decisive role. Here, an almost mythical fog lies quietly over the vineyards in the morning and helps ensure the humidity needed to allow the grapes to be “attacked” by noble rot. On the other hand, it must be dry at exactly the right time, so that the grapes can dry out using the fine noble rot, but retain the sugar in the grapes. And that is also the case at Château d’Yquem, where you are doubly favored by nature. When the grapes are to be harvested, you go through the grapes in the fields as many as five times to ensure that they have reached just the right level of noble rot. where the grapes on it almost look like something between a raisin and a date – and in principle do not look very appetizing.

Acidity and sweetness
One of the things that makes Château d’Yquem so famous and sought after is the wines’ absolutely eminent balance between acidity and sweetness. You get both in meter measurements, as two equally strong powers that together create something unique. Semillon is primarily used, which by nature is very susceptible to noble rot and which in that way delivers the majority of the beautiful sweetness that is in the best sautes in the world. A large part of the acidity comes from Sauvignon Blanc, and as climate change makes the weather warmer, the amount of Sauvignon Blanc has been increased in order to preserve the fine acidity. In addition, they have gone from cask aging in completely new casks for three years to two years instead, precisely to preserve and under-roast the wine’s natural acidity. At the same time, the must is kept in steel tanks for only one night, so that it reaches the barrel as quickly as possible.

The best of the best
Château d’Yquem is undoubtedly the star when it comes to sautenes. The labels on the bottles are specially made so that they cannot be simply imitated – almost like banknotes. That way, you can be sure that you are getting a real bottle of Château d’Yquem.