Sweeter Wine (all sizes)

Top quality Sauternes from this young winemaker and unusually good at this price level. Perhaps a little lighter in colour and weight than previous vintages but still amply rich and sweet with a...(read more)

Manual harvest, full ripeness 12° alcohol, 55 g/l residual sugar, with 4.8 g/l total acidity. Fully developed, but it has a kind of restrained intensity. Very pure and subtle, lovely fresh length...(read more)

Made in the classical Mas Amiel manner, 'muté sur grain', aged a year in 'bon-bons' (prodigiously large glass jars which are left out in the sun and snow on the foothills of the Pyrenees) for a y...(read more)

Tasted at the Sauternes 2006 ten-year on horizontal in Bordeaux. The 2006 Coutet has plenty of quince and marmalade scents on the nose, a subtle nuttiness underneath, perhaps a touch of passion f...(read more)

Tasted at the Sauternes 2006 ten-year on horizontal in Bordeaux. The 2006 Lafaurie Peyraguey has a complex bouquet: honey, white chocolate, quince and dried pineapple scents that billow from the...(read more)

The 2006 Rieussec is a blend of 94% Semillon, 3% Sauvignon Blanc and 3% Muscadelle picked between 5 September and 10 October. The bouquet is a little smudged at first with marmalade and quince ar...(read more)

A very hot and dry vintage. A long harvest with 5 passes through the vineyard. Botrytis developed very slowly: it began on 29 September and finished on 21 October. 90% Sémillon, 8% Sauvignon and...(read more)

A little gem of a dessert wine, filled with raisin and marmalade fruit, a whiff of botrytis and then lovely balancing acidity, that leads in to a satisfying creamy finish.