Chateau Rabaud Promis Sauternes 2005

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Chateau Rabaud Promis Sauternes 2005 Front Label
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Vintage
2005

Size
750ML

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The nose offers notes of lemon flower and fresh pineapple leaves. The mouth is full with notes of almonds, honey, mango, stone fruits and spices.

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    The botrytis is amazingly perfumed, smelling like a Paris perfume shop. The fruit is lost in a crazy range of exotic flavors. Fun, but very different.
    Barrel Sample: 90-92 Points
  • 90
    Honey, apple pie, dried pineapple and acacia aromas follow through to a full body, with medium sweetness and a spicy, viscous finish. Best after 2010. 5,000 cases made.

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Chateau Rabaud Promis

Chateau Rabaud Promis

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Chateau Rabaud Promis, France
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Located opposite the Chateau d'Yquem, the Rabaud-Promis castle, quietly lying on the hill Rabaud since the late eighteenth century, offers its facade, designed by architect Victor Louis, the rising sun. His vineyard, the creation of which coincides with the birth of Sauternes, spreads peacefully on the gentle slopes that surround the house. Premier cru classified in 1855, the story of Chateau Rabaud-Promis is a real saga, owned by cutting change owner until 1950, when it was bought by Louis Raymond Lanneluc. The property is exclusively family managed by Michele and Philippe Dejean and his son Thomas, representing the 9th generation of winemakers in Sauternes.
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Apart from the classics, we find many regional gems of different styles.

Late harvest wines are probably the easiest to understand. Grapes are picked so late that the sugars build up and residual sugar remains after the fermentation process. Ice wine, a style founded in Germany and there referred to as eiswein, is an extreme late harvest wine, produced from grapes frozen on the vine, and pressed while still frozen, resulting in a higher concentration of sugar. It is becoming a specialty of Canada as well, where it takes on the English name of ice wine.

Vin Santo, literally “holy wine,” is a Tuscan sweet wine made from drying the local white grapes Trebbiano Toscano and Malvasia in the winery and not pressing until somewhere between November and March.

Rutherglen is an historic wine region in northeast Victoria, Australia, famous for its fortified Topaque and Muscat with complex tawny characteristics.

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Sauternes Wine

Bordeaux, France

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Sweet and unctuous but delightfully charming, the finest Sauternes typically express flavors of exotic dried tropical fruit, candied apricot, dried citrus peel, honey or ginger and a zesty beam of acidity.

Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris and Muscadelle are the grapes of Sauternes. But Sémillon's susceptibility to the requisite noble rot makes it the main variety and contributor to what makes Sauternes so unique. As a result, most Sauternes estates are planted to about 80% Sémillon. Sauvignon is prized for its balancing acidity and Muscadelle adds aromatic complexity to the blend with Sémillon.

Botrytis cinerea or “noble rot” is a fungus that grows on grapes only in specific conditions and its onset is crucial to the development of the most stunning of sweet wines.

In the fall, evening mists develop along the Garonne River, and settle into the small Sauternes district, creeping into the vineyards and sitting low until late morning. The next day, the sun has a chance to burn the moisture away, drying the grapes and concentrating their sugars and phenolic qualities. What distinguishes a fine Sauternes from a normal one is the producer’s willingness to wait and tend to the delicate botrytis-infected grapes through the end of the season.

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