Château Sigalas Rabaud 2014 - 1er Cru Classé de Sauternes
Bordeaux
White
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Drink or Keep
96/100
Wine Enthusiast
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92-93/100
James Suckling
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92+/100
Robert Parker
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17/20
Bettane & Desseauve
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1*Étoile
Hachette
" The wine is all richness, loaded with botrytis and concentration. With its balanced acidity and dried fruit flavors, it's ripe, gorgeous and developing well, if slowly. It will be a great wine [...]" (Wine Enthusiast 2017) Delivery in wooden case for orders of 6 bottles of this wine (excluding Point Relais delivery method).
Features
Estate
Château Sigalas Rabaud
Cuvée
1er Cru Classé
Vintage
2014
Designation
Sauternes
Region
Bordeaux
Grape varieties
85% Sémillon, 15% Sauvignon
Terroirs
Sandy-clay gravel soils
Viticulture
Traditional and meticulous
Harvest
Manual
Winemaking
Automatic temperature control in barrels, vatting time 2 to 6 weeks
Breeding
18 months in French oak barrels
Alcohol content
14%
Tasting & pairing
Eye
Golden yellow colour
Nose
Complex with notes of apricot, pineapple, citrus and white flowers.
Mouth
Powerful and velvety on the palate. The intense aromatic return confirms the promise of the first nose and lends elegance to this wine. On the finish, slightly spicy and mineral notes give a refined vivacity and hint at great potential.
Serve
AT 8-10°C
Drink before
2030+
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy with foie gras, fine fish with cream, blue-veined cheeses (Roquefort, Stilton), fruit desserts... and roast poultry such as capon with raisins, fine foie gras stuffing pan-fried with grenailles potatoes and porcini mushrooms.
Château Sigalas Rabaud
Sauternes
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Rated 17/20 (Reference wine)
Domaine rated (guide 2023) 4*Stars (Top-quality producers, the glories of French winegrowing)
About the wine:
Always aromatic with yellow fruits, less liquorish than some of its peers but remarkably well-balanced, it will find its place at the table with dishes that it deserves to inspire.
About the domain :
A direct neighbor of Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Sigalas-Rabaud is a small vineyard of 14 hectares in a single block (the smallest classified growth in Sauternes), ideally exposed, capable of producing a very syrupy wine of transcendent finesse. Due to its early age, grape rot develops in a particularly noble way, as the great vintages of the last twenty years have shown. Laure Compeyrot de Lambert steers the vineyard towards a more respectful viticulture and produces dry wines with character.
Guide Hachette des vins
Wine rated (2018 guide) 1*Star (Very successful wine)
Domaine noté (guide 2021) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the wine:
From one of Sauternes' finest terroirs, this wine does not betray its origins. The golden color is of medium intensity, but is enlivened by brilliant reflections, and the bouquet is already very expressive, blending subtle lime blossom fragrances with more intense notes of candied apricot, orange and vanilla. Supple, round and fat, the palate is in unison with the nose: it unfurls rich aromas of candied yellow fruit, before offering a delicate woody finish with hints of vanilla and coconut. A racy liquoreux that will delight lovers of traditional Sauternes. The previous vintage was voted coup de coeur.
About the domain :
Established in the 17th century by a family of magistrates at the Bordeaux parliament, Ch. Rabaud was acquired by Henri Sigalas and became Sigalas-Rabaud in 1863. In 1903, his son Pierre sold 30 ha to the Promis family, keeping only "the jewel of the terroir", i.e. the present 14 ha planted on a gravelly hilltop on clay. The history of the estate was then eventful (leasing, regroupings, divisions), until the family lands were taken over in 1951 by Marie-Antoinette de Lambert des Granges, née Sigalas, whose granddaughter, Laure de Lambert Compeyrot, now manages the estate.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
Rated (2018 guide) 92+/100 (Wonderful wine)
About the wine:
Pale lemon in color, Sigalas 2014 has a wonderfully exotic tropical fruit nose with nuances of honeycomb, fresh ginger, allspice and a touch of lime blossom. The rich, boldly fruity palate has a zippy line of freshness lifting layer upon layer of pineapple and guava-inspired flavors, finishing on a long, lingering spicy note.
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Domaine rated (guide 2023) 2*Stars (These great estates, often blessed with fabulous terroirs, are must-haves which, thanks to their consistency and the excellence of their production, must be included in the cellars of discerning wine lovers).
About the domain :
The de Lambert family exploits this magnificent, homogeneous terroir, which provides ideal conditions for the development of noble rot. The wine's style is unrivalled: while it matches the Haut-Sauternais premiers crus in richness of liqueur and power, with a bouquet of the same nature, it reveals a more assertive immediate finesse, which only increases tenfold with ageing. In the end, these are small miracles that a core of loyal connoisseurs place in the firmament of Sauternes. Laure de Lambert-Compeyrot took over the management of Sigalas Rabaud in 2013 and is energetically developing the production of dry whites (La Sémillante de Sigalas and La Demoiselle). She is also fighting for recognition of a new dry Sauternes appellation.
Wine Spectator
Domaine noté Recommended (Wine Spectator recommended wine producer)
Wine Enthusiast
Rated wine (2017 guide) 96/100
About the wine:
The wine is all richness, loaded with botrytis and concentration. With its balanced acidity and dried fruit flavors, it's ripe, gorgeous and developing well, if slowly. It will be a great wine, but wait until 2024 to open it.
Jancis Robinson
Recommended area
James Suckling
Wine rated (2015 guide) 92-93/100
About the wine:
The wine shows great tension and beauty with dried fruit, minerals and intensity. Medium body, bright finish.
Le Figaro vins
Area rated Recommended
Customer reviews
Customer rating
4.4/5
out of 13 reviews
Note and review by M. FRANCOIS G. Published on 19/11/2024
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