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Château des Eyssards "Cuvée Flavie" 2005, A.C. Saussignac
Color:
light golden yellow with some green.
Nose:
quite expressive, fresh and sweet, clean, clear, with minerals, honey,
flowers and white fruit (pineapple, apple) also a touch of vanilla,
wood and a hint of rhubarb, quite deep, complex, elegant and refined,
very beautiful, great purity, well balanced and classy.
Taste:
rich, round, sweet, soft, unctuous, mild and also very fresh, mineral
with lots of clean and clear complex white fruit, some vanilla, cream,
honey, flowers, great purity, good concentration, complexity, great
composition, still young and vibrant, the sweetness is not yet embedded
and at this moment a bit pronounced, great potential.
Finish:
sweet, long, intense, very clean and clear, unctuous, fresh, rich, with
impressions of minerals, white fruit, vanilla and honey. Great purity.
* Great, classy sweet
wine, still very young (and sweet), excellent freshness, impressive
purity, beautiful white and exotic fruit, minerals, with impressions of
vanilla and honey, clean well defined style with good intensity,
elegance, already emerging complexity, depth and great potential. Great
wine for little money!!
- This wine is already
delicious,
but still a little touch to sweet. This will become more harmonious
with time and I expect the balance to be excellent mid 2007. Will
improve over the years and will keep until ca. 2012, maybe a bit
longer. If you prefer fruit drink it well before 2012, if you value
mushrooms and earthy, spicy nuances wait a few years (from 2009).
- If this wine was produced
on a great terroir, a great wine would have been the result. This wine shows the result
of a good terroir worked and understood by a great vinegrower and
wine maker. He has done really everything right with this wine in 2005.
The freshness and purity of this wine are exemplary and lift this sweet
wine to a very high level. A perfect wine for a very
reasonable price, especially if you compare it with the great, more
reputed
wines from e.g. Sauternes or even Monbazillac. Residual sugar: ca. 150
gr./l. Made from 80%
Sémillon
and 20% Chenin-Blanc (officially not permitted but apparently an
excellent
choice hence the freshness and elegance), harvested from old vines with
very low yields: 12 - 15 hl/ha, matured during one year on 1 and
2 year old barriques (just the right proportion and age of the barrels,
so well integrated: you do not notice where the wood starts and the
spicy
fruit ends).
- second label: Château Billot (exactly the same wine)
- lotnr.: L SC 05
- tasted: 20-11-’06 (still in excellent condition after 2 months in open bottle)
- estimated retail price ca. 11,00 euro per 0,5 litre bottle
- average production: ca. 16.000 bottles (0,5 litre)
- Château des Eyssards "L'Esprit Latin" Mr. Pascal Cuisset, 24240 Monestier, tel.: + 33-553 24 36 36; fax.: + 33-553 58 63 74; e-mail: eyssards@wanadoo.fr