2006 Château d'Yquem, Sauternes, Bordeaux Women in Wine Wine Director

Wine Director

This will be a wine to keep for many a long year

but this is right up there as the wine of the tasting

Layers of soft berry fruit and damp grass unfold on the palate

but there is still a softly brushed tannic frame

2006 Château d'Yquem, Sauternes, Bordeaux Women in Wine Wine DirectorCh. d'Yquem is often described as the greatest sweet white wine in the world; quite a reputation to live up to in a difficult vintage for sweet wines. The 2006 was luscious and rich with lovely tarte aux pommes flavours, sweet pineapple and citrus fruit of great purity. It was well balanced with beautiful freshness and incredible concentration but perhaps lacking the depth and complexity of better vintages. This will be an early drinking Yquem with