D'YQUEM (SAUTERNES) 2009 750ML
Product price
$999.00
Description
99 Points! Wine Enthusiast. The D'Yquem (Sauternes) 2009 is a renowned dessert wine from the Sauternes region of France, celebrated for its complex flavor profile. This 750ml bottle exhibits a rich blend of apricot, honey, and luscious stone fruits, complemented by a balanced acidity that enhances its sweet character.
This Sauternes pairs exceptionally well with a variety of foods, including blue cheeses, foie gras, and desserts like tarts and crème brûlée. It also complements spicy Asian dishes, offering a contrast that enhances the overall dining experience.
Product Details
| Category | High End Fine Wine |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Left Bank – Sauternes & Barsac |
| Varietal | SemillonSauvignon Blanc |
| Producer | Chateau d'Yquem |
| Vintage | 2009 |
| Size | 750 ml |
| Container | Bottle |
| Rater | Wine Enthusiast |
| Rating | 99 Points |
| Wine Style | Bordeaux |
Expert Reviews
In comparison to the 2010 vintage, the 2009 d'Yquem is more concentrated with a stunning "rôti," the consequence of noble rot in French. Developing a powerful, complex bouquet with aromas of pineapple, apricot, saffron, flowers, spices and orchard fruits, it’s dense and concentrated, full-bodied and layered with a crystalline texture complicated by notes of white truffles that reveal a racy, endless and a superb finish concluding with a pristine harmony. Readers with bottles in their cellars will have to be patient before opening this masterpiece with 155 grams of residual sugar.
Barrel sample. The aromas are so rich and powerful, with great ripe apricots. There are honey, spice and beautiful sweet spiced pears. This is an extraordinary wine in an extraordinary year in Sauternes.
The length to this is exceptional with an intensity yet subtlety. Full and medium sweet with bright and exciting acidity. It's all in balance here. Crème brûlée, pineapple, and papaya. Lasts so long on finish. It's so fabulous now. It will age forever but it's already a joy to taste, even drink.
The aromas are closed today, but the core is loaded with apricot, nectarine and orange notes, bolted by a citrus zest spine and backed by toasted almond and piecrust accents on the finish. A large-scale Yquem that shows the richness of the vintage.
From a dry, hot year, this Yquem has retained all the freshness of a great Sauternes combined with massive intensity of ultra-ripe grapes. It lacks the additional complexity of more botrytised vintages but makes up for this with the wonderful balance of sweetness, orange zest notes and tingling acidity. Not a fat style of Yquem, the acidity makes this very refreshing. Can be enjoyed now but has the concentration to last at least another two decades.
This has a very refined and sophisticated bouquet with wild honey, brioche, vanilla pod and light orange blossom aromas, beautifully refined. The palate is very well defined with fine acidity, very elegant in style with pure botrytised fruit and superb acidity on the finish. Ah...that is more like it.