
- Colour Port_Sweet
- Producer Château Sigalas Rabaud
- Region Sauternes
- Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
- Drinking 2032 - 2055
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available En Primeur
2024 - Ch Sigalas Rabaud 1er Cru Sauternes - 6x75cl
- Colour Port Sweet
- Producer Château Sigalas Rabaud
- Region Sauternes
- Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
- Drinking 2032 - 2055
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available En Primeur
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Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2025, Score: 94-96
Quite an open nose at present, with waxy, fresh peaches, and honeysuckle. Some green notes too, but not unripe – a minty touch which is really refreshing! Delicious sapidity to the fruit, but so crystalline and precise. There’s a wonderful honeyed note too, very fresh and complex. Good richness and weight on the palate, with a fresh long acidity. Surely one of the Sauternes of the vintage and one that continues to fly under the radar.
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Neal Martin, April 2025, Score: 90-92
The 2024 Sigalas Rabaud has an intriguing bouquet with dried honey, melted candle wax and light white flower scents. It opens nicely in the glass, gaining good vigor. The palate is well balanced with tangy clementine, mango and light spicy notes towards the finish, where it tails off slightly. Hopefully, it will address that during its élevage.
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Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Score: 92-94
The 2024 Sigalas Rabaud is a very pretty, delicate Sauternes. Lifted floral notes and citrus-tinged fruit are the signatures in an airy, nuanced Sauternes that hovers across the palate. Despite its understated personality, Sigalas Rabaud offers plenty of persistence along with the balance to wrap it all together in style.
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Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2025, Score: 94-96
Quite an open nose at present, with waxy, fresh peaches, and honeysuckle. Some green notes too, but not unripe – a minty touch which is really refreshing! Delicious sapidity to the fruit, but so crystalline and precise. There’s a wonderful honeyed note too, very fresh and complex. Good richness and weight on the palate, with a fresh long acidity. Surely one of the Sauternes of the vintage and one that continues to fly under the radar.
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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.