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2023 Ch d'Yquem 1er cru Classé Supérieur Sauternes - 1x150cl
07C3YQUESM _ 2023 - Ch d'Yquem 1er cru Classé Supérieur Sauternes - 1x150cl
  • Colour Port_Sweet
  • Producer Château d'Yquem
  • Region Sauternes
  • Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2095
  • Case size 1x150cl
  • Available Later

2023 - Ch d'Yquem 1er cru Classé Supérieur Sauternes - 1x150cl

  • Colour Port Sweet
  • Producer Château d'Yquem
  • Region Sauternes
  • Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
  • Drinking 2028 - 2095
  • Case size 1x150cl
  • Available Later
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Case price: £631.72 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £631.72 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £520.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, February 2026

    "Ticks all the boxes,” comments Lorenzo, calling it “one of the great vintages.” The third in a remarkable trio from this estate, it beautifully marries the high-toned freshness of 2021 with the intense concentration of 2022, capturing the best of both. A masterclass in aromatic intensity, balance and persistence, it opens with lifted notes of acacia honey, quince, orange peel and orange blossom. The palate reveals exotic fruits - guava, mango and dried pineapple - intertwined with blossom notes and sliced white mushrooms, and some spicy ginger and saffron beginning to emerge. What truly sets it apart, however, is its texture, silky and elegant, it glides effortlessly across the palate. Incredibly delicate and pure, with a crystalline structure, this is simply magnificent. Drink 2026-2090+.

  • Neal Martin, March 2026, Score: 99

    The 2023 Yquem, a blend of 70% Sémillon and 30% Sauvignon Blanc, contains 154 grams per litre of residual sugar—less than the 2022. As usual, the 2023 was matured in 100% new oak, mainly French, with a small percentage from Austria. The nose is so seductive that it should come with a warning sticker. Pure and mellow, it offers beguiling scents of wild honey, quince jelly, almond shavings and that signature hint of saffron destined to accentuate with age. It displays wonderful definition, though it does not have the “aromatic drama” of the previous vintage. The palate has exquisite balance and poise that belies the depth of this Yquem, though it is less exuberant, less ostentatious than the 2022. It is really the umami sensation that defines the 2023, how it caresses, almost soothes the grateful taste buds, vanilla and flecks of white chocolate lingering on the aftertaste. This will probably drink a little sooner than the 2022. If the 2023 does have a fault, it’s that it is so flattering in its flush of youth that it will be difficult to resist. Sublime. 99/Drink 2030-2090.

  • Wine Advocate, March 2026, Score: 100

    With 153 grams per liter of residual sugar - placing it among the 10 most concentrated vintages in the château’s history - the 2023 d'Yquem ranks among the finest wines bottled here under Lorenzo Pasquini’s direction. It unfurls from the glass with a complex, vibrant and remarkably pure bouquet of pineapple, guava, mango, confit citrus, beeswax and spices. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it combines formidable depth with perfectly judged control, built around a fleshy core of fruit, framed by lively acidity and a crystalline texture and culminating in an endless, refined and ethereal finish. Yquem’s natural power is here masterfully harnessed by the vintage’s freshness and tension, revealing an aesthetic of precision and vibrancy encountered only in the estate’s greatest years - made all the more remarkable by the fact that the château now achieves even higher levels of concentration than a decade ago, without any perceptible increase in sweetness on the palate. Drink 2026-2076.

  • James Suckling, Deember 2025, Score: 100

    Perfect aromas carry through to every milliliter of this wine, showing intense orange peel, honey, butterscotch, saffron, smoke and peat, with hints of coffee and dried apples. Full-bodied but weightless and silky, with an excellent balance of fruit, sweetness and spices. Some peanut brittle, dried oranges and lemons at the end. I can’t get over how wonderful this is now, but it can age forever. 154 g/L residual sugar. Drink or hold.

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, February 2026

    "Ticks all the boxes,” comments Lorenzo, calling it “one of the great vintages.” The third in a remarkable trio from this estate, it beautifully marries the high-toned freshness of 2021 with the intense concentration of 2022, capturing the best of both. A masterclass in aromatic intensity, balance and persistence, it opens with lifted notes of acacia honey, quince, orange peel and orange blossom. The palate reveals exotic fruits - guava, mango and dried pineapple - intertwined with blossom notes and sliced white mushrooms, and some spicy ginger and saffron beginning to emerge. What truly sets it apart, however, is its texture, silky and elegant, it glides effortlessly across the palate. Incredibly delicate and pure, with a crystalline structure, this is simply magnificent. Drink 2026-2090+.

  • Jane Anson, February 2026, Score: 100

    Power, freshness, depth, after the extremes of 2021 and 2022, this walks the line between the two, exceptional, mandarin, quince, mirabelle plums, white truffle, fresh fruit and confit fruit, a vibration of slate and steel, opulent but slices closed on the finish. The botrytis came early and quickly in 2023. Francis Mayeur in final vintage as consultant, after many years as inhouse winemaking team, Lorenzo Pasquini director. Drink 2026-2050.

Producer

Château d'Yquem

Château d'Yquem sits on its own in more ways than one. It has its own rank at the top of the 1855 classification - Premier Cru Supérieur - and it lies near the peak at the centre of the Southern Sauternes appellation. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the best white wine in France was produced there (although it would have been quite a different wine to today's).Once belonging to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Château d'Yquem passed to t...Read more

Château d'Yquem sits on its own in more ways than one. It has its own rank at the top of the 1855 classification - Premier Cru Supérieur - and it lies near the peak at the centre of the Southern Sauternes appellation. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the best white wine in France was produced there (although it would have been quite a different wine to today's).Once belonging to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Château d'Yquem passed to the french crown upon her marriage to the future King Louis VII. After the marriage was annulled, Eleanor was free to marry Henry Plantagenet, who became King Henry II of England, in 1154. Château d'Yquem remained in British hands until the end of the Hundred Years War (1453).The Sauvage dYquem family acquired it in 1593 and maintained ownership until the 18th century, a time throughout which they modified and added to the Château and the reputation of the wine was sealed.Despite the family losing the estate after the revolution, they managed to wrest control of it once more, and Francoise-Josephine Sauvage d'Yquem again continued to build the estate. The estate passed through the Lur-Saluces family until it reached Bertrand de Lur-Saluces. Bertrand introduced the dry white wine "Y" (pronounced ygrec in french). In 1968 upon Bertrand's death, the estate passed to his nephew Alexandre Lur-Saluces who tended the estate until family politics saw the control of the estate land with LMVH and Pierre Lurton who manages Cheval Blanc (also a LMVH property) now looks after the estate. The vineyards are a total of 113ha in all, only about 100ha are actually in production, thus allowing the the replacement of elderly vines and some land to lie fallow. It is planted with 80% Semillion and 20% Sauvignon Blanc, due to the latter's increased productivity, the end result is a more even distribution in the bottle. Yields are about 9hl/ha compared to 20 to 30 hl/ha in other sauternes properties. The site it particulaly susceptible to botrytis, or Noble rot, which causes the grapes to shrivel whilst concentrating the sugars and introducing levels of complexity. Harvest is extremely labour intensive, with several "tries" picking the grapes in the correct condition. The wine is fermented in Oak with typically three years spent in the barrel. On average about 65,000 bottles are produced every year.Read less

Region

Sauternes

It is not an exaggeration to say that these are the greatest sweet wines in the world. They are the result of a serendipitous marriage of grape variety, location, annual weather conditions and human care and determination. The vineyards are located on the banks of the cool spring-fed Ciron river which, in autumn, flows into the warmer tidal Garonne and creates rolling evening mists which clothe the vines until the afternoon sun burns them off the following day. This cycle creates perfect conditions for the development of botrytis cinerea or noble rot, and the resulting grape juice is a super concentrated sweet, ambrosial nectar which makes the most heavenly and complex wines with extraordinary ability to age. In 1855 the wines were classified into first and second growths, with Ch d'Yquem rightly receivingits own super status of premier grand cru. Other stunning wines include Chx Sudiraut, Rieussec, Coutet and Climens. While seductively fragrant and sweet when young, if you can bear to wait, you will be amply rewarded with lusciously rich, exotically complex wine.

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