2010 Suduiraut
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Tasting Notes
A very fresh nose offers green tropical fruit like unripe mango and limes. The palate leans more towards very very ripe fresh tropical citrus, I heard toffee apple suggested, but there is still fresh acidity. There is not a lot of weight here, but the acidity softens with fig jam on the finish, just about right.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Ivor Davies
More reviews and scores
This rich, ripe Sauternes has lovely aromatics but the palate is less complex than the nose suggests. The sweet dried pineapple and dried mango flavours are chunky and are attractive with modest depth. This full bodied Suduiraut will no doubt age beautifully. wait at least five to seven years before approaching it. Jeannie Cho Lee MW asianpalate.com
Suduiraut is usually a pale amber, deepening with age. The 2010 seems lighter and more winey than sucrate. It does not exhale its cool juniper and honeysuckle breath at once. Well-contained and harmonised flavours of acids and honey, beeswax, steely and stony minerals, dawn on the mid-palate, giving way, at length, to meditation onla pourriture noble and its sublimity. Ivor Davies
Super nose with some exotic pineapple/mango/passion fruit undertones mixed with Vouvray-like blossom-tree and quince jelly, enormous body, but incredible purity and crystal-like transparency, great length, a masterpiece! Drink 2020-2070. (19 points) Michel Bettane, decanter.com
About the producer
Among the very best Sauternes estates, Ch. Suduiraut is owned by AXA Millésimes, which also manages Pichon Baron. The team works meticulously to select the finest fruit from its 91 hectares of vines, bordering Yquem. The resulting wines are intensely concentrated, balanced, complex and age-worthy.