Chateau Guiraud Sauternes 2007
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Chateau Guiraud Sauternes 2007
Dessert from Sauternes and Barsac, Bordeaux, France
ratings pedigree (past vintages):
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(this vintage is sold out)
The 2005 vintage is available for: $69.99
Limit 12 bottles per customer
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winemaker's notes:
The wine's enchanting bouquet of white flowers, acacia, hawthorn blossom, lily, and tuberose are complemented by overtones of forest floor, spice, frehly-ground white pepper, tea, and saffron. Noble rot has worked its magi, and the bouquet slowly and tantalizingly reveals its full subtlety. Guiraud is deliciously bodied, rich, and velvety on the palate. The fruity flavors are combined with an inimitable botrytis and candied fruit character.
The exuberant flavors burst forth with such sensuality that one hesitates before swallowing to prolong the taste sensations. Guiraud's sweetness melts in the mouth, the aftertaste is always fresh. The initial taste impressions come through again marvellously on the finish, and the pleasure goes on and on. This is the key to understanding Guiraud. It is all about pleasure.
critical acclaim:
"A gold-colored wine. The palate has intense freshness as well as ripe apricot and orange zest flavors. The acidity cuts through the intense richness, leaving a wine that needs time to fully integrate, and then many more years to mature. "
96 Points
Wine Enthusiast
"The Guiraud 2007 has a typically unabashed, exuberant bouquet with tangerine, pear, white peach and honeysuckle. The palate is medium-bodied with a lovely viscous entry, very good weight of fruit, and a lot of botrytis; smooth and very harmonious towards the finish that would benefit from a little more clarity and dare I say, "personality". Still, a very fine Sauternes. Drink 2012-2035."
93 Points
The Wine Advocate
"Full medium gold. Fascinating nose combines pink grapefruit, orange oil, fresh apricot, fresh herbs, cinnamon and mace: all pits and peels and oils. Smooth, concentrated and rich in botrytis, with well-focused citrus and stone fruit flavors complicated by smoke, flint, figs and dates. Finishes very long and spicy, firm-edged with citric flavors but not at all harsh. With three days in the recorked bottle, this turned thicker and more honeyed, and showed higher-toned notes of orange marmalade complicated by vanilla and toast, all without loss of freshness. A very distinctive wine that really needs time to come into focus and should be long-lived."
92 Points
International Wine Cellar
"Shows dried orange and apricot, with a lime and honey undertone. Full-bodied, with medium sweetness, a fruity aftertaste of dried lemon and a medium spicy finish. A balanced and refined Guiraud. Best after 2011."
91 Points
Wine Spectator
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