Château Sigalas-Rabaud, 1er CC Sauternes - 2010

Provenance: Bordeaux
Appellation: Sauternes
Domain: Sigalas-Rabaud
Grape variety(ies): 85% Semillon, 14% Sauvignon, 1% Muscadelle
On-call time: 30 years
Style of wine: Vin doux
Alcohol degree: 13.5%
Note: 95-97/100 | Classement: 1e Cru Classé

This great Sauternes offers superb candied aromas, with notes of roasted peach, caramel, dried fig, apricot and currant. The palate matches it, with a complex, supremely balanced finish. A sumptuous wine!

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Technique

Viticulture

14.25 ha in one piece on the Sauternes terrace. Soil: Gravel on clay on the upper part, clay-sand-gravel on the hillside. Planting density: 6500-7500 vines/ha. Average age of the vines: 40 years. Pruning: Sauternaise 3 cots with 2 eyes. Traditionally cultivated vines, some of which are planted with grass. Disbudding and thinning out in summer.

Oenology

100% manual harvesting by successive selections with sorting of the grapes on the vine. 17hl/ha on average over 10 years. Fermentation in stainless steel tanks with a regulation system to start. Then, immediately in barrels. Selection and blending of batches in March following the harvest. Aged for 18 to 24 months in new barrels. Bottled at the château.