- Colour Port_Sweet
- Producer Château de Rayne Vigneau
- Region Bordeaux
- Grape Semillon
- Drinking 2009 - 2024
- Case size 24x37.5cl
- Available Now
2005 - Rayne Vigneau Sauternes - 24x37.5cl
- Colour Port Sweet
- Producer Château de Rayne Vigneau
- Region Bordeaux
- Grape Semillon
- Drinking 2009 - 2024
- Case size 24x37.5cl
- Available Now
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Neal Martin, June 2015, Score: 92
Tasted blind at the 10-Year On Tasting in Sauternes. The 2005 Château de Rayne-Vigneau has a waxy, dried pineapple, honey and petrol-tinged bouquet that gains vigor in the glass. The palate is fresh and vibrant with plenty of botrytis: very harmonious with honeyed fruit laced with dried orange peel, quince and ginger. This builds extremely well in the mouth and fans out in glorious fashion on the finish. This is an excellent Sauternes that should give 20 or 30 years of pleasure. Drink 2017-2042
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Neal Martin, June 2015, Score: 92
Tasted blind at the 10-Year On Tasting in Sauternes. The 2005 Château de Rayne-Vigneau has a waxy, dried pineapple, honey and petrol-tinged bouquet that gains vigor in the glass. The palate is fresh and vibrant with plenty of botrytis: very harmonious with honeyed fruit laced with dried orange peel, quince and ginger. This builds extremely well in the mouth and fans out in glorious fashion on the finish. This is an excellent Sauternes that should give 20 or 30 years of pleasure. Drink 2017-2042
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Jancis Robinson, February 2017, Score: 16
Tasted blind. Notably pale lemon gold. Lots of citrus acidity. A tad simple. Box-ticking rather than intense and exciting. Hint of caramel. Drink 2016-2028
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Jancis Robinson, February 2009, Score: 16
Tight and toasty nose – quite complete though not especially subtle or layered. Quite long though with some substance. Just enough freshness... Drink 2011-2017
Region
Bordeaux
When the Romans first planted a few vines on the limestone outcrops of St Emilion in the early years of the first century, and tasted what was, by all accounts, rather thin, bitter wine, they can hardly have imagined that the region's greatest red wines would become the most sought afterfine wines in the world. From the days in the seventeenth century when the then owners of Ch Haut Brion, the de Pontac family, became the first to export to the UK, selling their wine in their own tavern, the Pontac's Head, red Bordeaux or claret has been the Englishman's favourite. The wines of the 1855 Classification are merely the tip of the iceberg. Bordeaux AC accounts for about half of all wine produced in the area, from vineyards outside the regional or communal appelations and often blended by the negociant houses. Simpler beasts these although still clearly related to their more illustrious cousins - relatively light and fresh, full of fruit, with soft tannins making for delicious, and good value, early drinking.