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Chateau d'Yquem 2023

$284.99
2023 is a dream vintage, a magnificent, perfectly-balanced reward for all the hard work of the teams at Yquem. Because blessings only happen when the conditions are just right. The Greek word apotheosis is used to describe “an event or undertaking which finishes in brilliant or extraordinary fashion”. The 2023 growing season witnessed an alignment of weather conditions so propitious to the production of Château d’Yquem that everybody knew, as soon as the grapes were harvested, that we were in the presence of a truly great vintage.

Professional Scores

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.

Robert Parker / Wine Advocate
375ml