Château Suduiraut 2024 en Primeur

Somptueuse finesse aromatique, avec un botrytis pur et frais, et une harmonie idéale de constitution liée à l’équilibre alcool, acidité et sucre. Finale interminable sur les agrumes dans la grande tradition du cru. Un grand classique du château en préparation.

Exotic citrus, orange blossom, honeyed mint, and floral notes all shine in the 2024 Château Suduiraut, a rocking gem of a Sauternes that's medium-bodied, has a concentrated, layered, rich mouthfeel, beautiful acidity, and a great finish. It's loaded with classic Sauternes magic.

The complete opposite of the 2022 vintage. Fresher and less unctuous, with more delicate fruit, but there is still plenty of botrytis. Spices, sweet pineapple, lemons, marmalade, wax, fresh mangoes and bitter herbs. Medium lusciousness, with a round, creamy finish. 130 grams of sugar.

Bright yellow gold, silver reflections. Inviting yellow tropical fruit, very fine botrytis savouriness, ripe mango, a hint of apricot confit, some vanilla, a hint of wood. inviting bouquet. Juicy, elegant, very clear fruit expression, powerful on the finish, some honey and grapefruit, mineral, long, secure and certain ageing potential.

The 2024 Suduiraut offers up a beguiling mix of passion fruit, mango, pineapple and tangerine oil. Even with 130 grams of residual sugar, the 2024 is not an especially opulent Sauternes. I especially admire its freshness. What a beautiful and expressive wine. - Antonio Galloni. 

Delicate aromatics, really floral and lifted, clean and crystalline, pure and focused, not so overly sweet, but some peach density with a touch of orange blossom and marmalade. Unctuous and filling but in a great way, not thick, but round and punchy. Focussed on delicate flavours and botrytis, orange peel and apricot, not exotic, but cool and fresh and so detailed. This is so easy to drink and enjoy with acidity and lift. Structure is there but there is an ease to this. Very enjoyable. Ageing 50% in new barrels and 50% from barrels of one vintage, for 16 to 20 months, according to the evolution of the wine. Represents 77% of production. 130g/L residual sugar. 3.83pH. - Georgina Hindle. 

The 2024 Pur Sémillon Blanc Sec is exquisite, revealing a complex, delicate bouquet of pear, white flowers and anise, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy and round palate with bright acids and a delicate phenolic mid-palate that segues into a long, saline and pure finish. This is one of the white wines of the vintage.

Pear and apple with lemon verbena and some olive oil aromas, a hint of spicy oak complementing. Powerful in the mouth with deep concentrated fruit and plenty of structural phenolic. Fresh lime acidity and a long finish. Terrific wine, and as good as last year. Possibly even more elegant. 

L’échantillon offre une liqueur modérée, aux contours bien définis, mais sans extravagance ni flamboiement aromatique. Au vu de la qualité et de l’intensité des trois derniers millésimes à Suduiraut, on reste dans l’expectative… Il est possible que le vin cache son jeu.