Dessert Wine20214.6🇫🇷 Bordeaux • White
Château d'Yquem - 2021
Bordeaux, France · Château d'Yquem · 65% Sémillon, 35% Sauvignon Blanc
OrangeApricotHoneysuckle
The world's most famous sweet wine: honeyed apricot and orange, yet 2021 is unusually light on its feet. A once-in-a-lifetime glass.
890.00 €/ 0.75 L
Delivered in ~30 minutes, anywhere in Monaco
Delivered in ~30 minutes, anywhere in Monaco
A cellar curated by our sommelier
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What you will taste
Yquem is the only Sauternes ranked above every other sweet wine of Bordeaux, made from grapes shrivelled by a friendly fungus called noble rot that concentrates them into liquid honey. The 2021 tastes of apricot, candied orange and honeysuckle, sweet but never heavy, with a freshness that keeps you reaching for another sip. James Suckling gave it a perfect 100 points.
The sommelier’s note
«2021 was a cool, tricky year, and Yquem answered with grace instead of power: 148 grams of sugar per litre that somehow feel weightless. Serve it well chilled in small glasses; a little goes a long, long way. It will live for fifty years, but it is already generous tonight.»
How this wine opens up
From the first pour to the last glass — follow it through the evening.
On arrival
Chill it properly
Place the bottle in the fridge, or better, in an ice bucket with water for 25 minutes. Yquem shines at about 10 degrees: cold enough to feel fresh, warm enough to smell everything.
30 min · First pour
Small glasses, small sips
Pour just a third of a glass. Smell first: apricot, honey, orange blossom. Then a small sip, and let it sit on your tongue a moment. Notice how sweet it is, yet how clean the finish feels.
