Yquem - Sauternes 2021

Yquem, a legendary wine

The 2021 vintage - a perfect harmony between freshness and delicacy

Climatic conditions :

Spring 2021 put winegrowers to the test by confronting them with all the risks inherent in winegrowing: frost, hail and mildew. Thankfully, Yquem’s unique geographical location helped to preserve its great terroirs. From June to September, the grapes benefited from cool weather and moderate drought periods, bestowing the wines with superb acidity.

Then the Botrytis cinerea miracle came into play! Two rainy spells in mid-September and early October were conducive to the spread of noble rot throughout the vineyards, while a magnificent three-week window of fine weather marked by cool, dry and sunny conditions slowly concentrated the grapes.This optimum weather allowed the harvest to unfold incomplete serenity, in three successive passes, between 30 September and 30 October. The full aromatic profile of Botrytis cinerea was thus revealed in what can be described as an incredibly pure vintage.

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byJames Sucklingthe4/19/2024

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Dreamy, subtle aromas of dried fruit such as apricots and mangoes, but also fresh lemons and pears. Then there are caramel and tart tatin undertones with some bananas, pineapple, tangerines and other tropical fruit. Full-bodied, yet it remains vivid and compact, giving it a lightness even though it is really structured. The tannins are throughout the palate but blend in perfectly, giving it a solid presence, like a a diamond. It’s tight at the end, but you know that it will linger for ages, with a lightly chewy and intellectual finish. Touches of sweetness, cloves and bitterness to make it interesting. Dynamic. About 54,000 bottles made. Relatively small harvest. 148 g/L residual sugar.

Vinous

byNeal Martinthe4/2/2024

The Drink Business

byColin Haythe3/18/2024

Tutankhamun gold, maybe a hint of buttercup. I find this more direct and intense than the 2020. Yet this is also a wine that exudes balance and harmony, even at this nascent stage. Beautifully limpid and with a disguised natural power. Supremely aerial. Green apple skin. Saffron. Fresh ginger. A hint of confit ginger too. Lime. White grapefruit. A touch of fleur de sel. Marzipan. White almonds. Mango. Guava. Passionfruit. Pineapple – entirely pure and crisply fresh. All in great purity. This is floral, too. Mimosa. Buttercup (almost the leitmotif here). On the palate I find this tight and tense, yet so incredibly softly textured. And, above all, intense and captivating. Sparklingly striking and dynamic – and held together by the salinity as much as by the acidity, the two in fact working together, giving this an incredible aging potential. Delicate in its intensity. Sapid and with lovely waves of saline-inflected juicy fluidity. Even now this is a wine of very considerable complexity – built from assembling the finest botrytised grapes from the best of the couronne (the crown) of Bommes (with the Château of Yquem at the epicentre). This finishes with the most glorious bitter sugar note – burnt caramel just perfectly on the edge of bitterness. So accessible but so totally ageless and, for now, almost cool in its freshness.

The Wine Independent

byLisa Perrotti-Brownthe3/14/2024

The 2021 d'Yquem is composed of 65% Sémillon and 35% Sauvignon Blanc. It has 148 grams per liter of residual sugar, making for a relatively rich style and the sweetest Yquem since 2017. Pale lemon-gold colored, perfumed notes of orange peel, juicy peaches, grapefruit, and honeycomb slowly emerge from the glass, followed by suggestions of jasmine tea, fresh ginger, and lime blossoms. The palate is fantastically satiny, with great tension and loads of spicy sparks complementing the citrusy flavors, finishing with epic length and a zesty lift. 54,000 bottles were made. The alcohol is 13.9%, and the pH is 3.79.

Wine Advocate

byYohan Castaingthe2/8/2024

The 2021 d'Yquem exhibits a complex bouquet of rose, exotic fruits and mandarin orange mingled with spring flowers, rose and crème brûlée, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and seamless palate that's suave and layered, with a deep core and a long finish that's lent definition by delicate bitterness that offsets the 148 grams per liter residual sugar. This blend of 65% Sémillon and 35% Sauvignon Blanc was matured, as usual, in all new barrels, but the new oak is perfectly integrated and barely noticeable.

Vinous

byAntonio Gallonithe1/1/2024

The 2021 Yquem was tasted in Amsterdam, the first wine poured at a lunch, thereby allowing me a longer period to examine it. Slightly burnished in hue, it has a very attractive bouquet with scents of dried quince, clementine, linseed and subtle candle wax, perhaps more discrete than usual, but certainly fresh and vibrant. The palate is medium-bodied and viscous on the entry, a Yquem with perhaps a lighter chassis than recent vintages, prioritizing poise and purity over horsepower— exactly the right approach in such a challenging season. It opens wonderfully in the glass, gaining more frangipane and kaki fruit scents, though it seems to have a lighter and more tensile finish than the 2020 or 2019. As such, I suspect that it will be comparatively approachable and, of course, delicious. Readers should note that I will probably re-taste the 2021 in Bordeaux during primeur.

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Couleur	Blanc
Cépages	Sémillon 65 % Sauvignon Blanc 35 %
Appellation	Sauternes
Millesime	2021
Contenance	Mathusalem (6 l)

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Couleur

Blanc

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Sémillon 65 %
Sauvignon Blanc 35 %

Appellation

Sauternes

Millesime

2021

Contenance

Mathusalem (6 l)

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