- Colour Port_Sweet
- Producer Château Sigalas Rabaud
- Region Sauternes
- Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
- Drinking 2030 - 2060
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available En Primeur
2025 - Ch Sigalas Rabaud 1er Cru Sauternes - 6x75cl
- Colour Port Sweet
- Producer Château Sigalas Rabaud
- Region Sauternes
- Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
- Drinking 2030 - 2060
- Case size 6x75cl
- Available En Primeur
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Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 91-93
Heady and opulent nose, with mango, pineapple chunks, quince and Seville orange marmalade. Great silky flow across the palate. Again, the high percentage of Semillon (85%) is key here, adding wonderful phenolic complexity and texture.
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Neal Martin, May 2026, Score: 93-95
The 2025 Sigalas Rabaud has a nicely detailed bouquet with plenty of botrytised fruit. The palate is fresh and bright on the entry, very pure, with quince, peach and apricot notes. Just a little oak to be subsumed towards the finish (at the moment it imparts a touch of heaviness), but I am sure it will eventually come good. Excellent. Drink 2031-2055
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Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 91-93
Heady and opulent nose, with mango, pineapple chunks, quince and Seville orange marmalade. Great silky flow across the palate. Again, the high percentage of Semillon (85%) is key here, adding wonderful phenolic complexity and texture.
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Jane Anson, April 2026, Score: 93
A ton of opulence straight off the nose here, and on the palate also, quince, peach juice, preserved citrus, mango, bitter almond, silky texture, concentrated and enjoyable.
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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.