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Food to Eat with A Sauterne
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Sauterne is the great white dessert wine. Chateau Y'Quem is said to have no peer and has been described as the incomparable dessert wine of the world.
Sauternes is grown in the Bordeaux Region of France known for its sweet white wines. There are five villages in Graves that make this wine style - Sauternes, Barsac, Preignac, Fargues, and Bommes.
This region is located near a river where the mist and the fog help breed a "noble rot" - pourriture noble called botrytis. Early winemakers found that this rot turned the flavor of the grapes into a rich, honey flavor, with a deep brown color. This wine can age almost indefinitely.
Sauternes are primary made with the semillon grape, along with small amounts of sauvignon and muscadelle.
It is difficult to make a Sauterne. The rot must be of just the right level, and only the most affected grapes are picked. The grapes get up to 14% alcohol in them - this kills off the yeast, leaving behind much of the sugar that normally would be fermented away.
Flavors in sauterne range from apricot, peach, pineapple, and vanilla. The wines are smooth and creamy. More so than many other wine types, vintage in Sauternes is extremely important. The weather conditions can make or break and entire year's crop in this region.
Some of the other grat sauternes are Raymond-Lafon and Rieussec. They are also among the best dessert wines in the world
A good Sauterne is delicious, golden, unctuous and delicate. The famous roasted note comes when Sauternes is a little bit older.
Chateau yquem
This most highly-prized sauterne in the world, is produced under very stringent conditions. Thomas Jefferson considered it the best sweet wine in France, introducing it to George Washington for whom it also became a favorite. It was also the Tsar's favourite dessert wine at the Russian Court. Stalin wanted to take cuttings from this vineyard to the Crimea, so enchanted was he with Chateau D'Yquem. The article describes the whole history of this vineyard and its product.
Barsac, An Integral Part of Sauternes
Barsac lies about forty kilometres southeast of Bordeaux where the Sauternese area is crossed by the Ciron, a small tributary of the Garonne. Located between Climens and Caillou on the Haut-Barsac plateau, Cru Barréjats is a clay-limestone terroir of 5 hectares planted with very old vines, some over 80 years old.
The soil of Cru Barréjats is located on parcels of land spread between 13 end 18 metres above sea level, with a mixture of alluvial sands and silt coming from the alteration of limestone at Astéries.
The strong summer inflow of water allows the growing of quality grapes with a high concentrations of iron and the presence of calcium from the limestone allows concentrating the acidity of this wine. The vines are cultivated in a traditional way, without weedkillers, working the soil with a plow and constantly adding farm manure, never chemical fertilizers.
Growing grapes at Sauternes is very demanding. The sole purpose is to obtain, at the end of each summer, perfect ripe berries that express the terroir and the nobility of Botrytis. Given this makes it difficult to attain consistancy.
