2005 Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes Blend

Sauternes Blend - 750ML
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REVIEWS

JS 97 JD 96 WA 96 W&S 96 WE 94 JL 93 JG 93 NM 93 VN 93 WS 93 JR 91
JS 97

jamessuckling.com, March 2013

What a wine for the vintage, with spices and furniture wax undertones, then dried citrus fruit. Great intensity in this, powerful stuff. Perhaps the best 2005.
JD 96

jebdunnuck.com, April 2024

Mostly Semillon yet with a splash of Sauvignon, the 2005 Château Suduiraut offers up a rockingly good perfume of orange blossom, caramelized grapefruit, flower oil, spice, and brioche. This carries to a medium to...
WA 96

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, June 2024

With 163 grams per liter of residual sugar, the 2005 Suduiraut exhales a deep, complex bouquet of exotic fruits, pineapple, apricot and spices despite a slight touch of volatile acidity. Medium to full-bodied, rich and...
W&S 96

Wine & Spirits, October 2008

Bright gold. Perfectly balanced. Not sweet, and yet explosively sweet with flavors of fresh nectarine, scents of jasmine and honeysuckle. The sweetness pours out of the freshness, so it's impossible to taste them apart...
WE 94

Wine Enthusiast, June 2008

Picked over a period of eight weeks this wine shows the class and care resulting from such efforts. Citrus and white flower aromas lead to a wine that is not overtly rich with subtle shades of botrytis and orange...
JL 93

TheWineCellarInsider.com, June 2015

Still quite young, decanted 4 hours in advance, this is still young, fresh and lively. Loads of pineapple, apricot, vanilla and honey in the perfume. The wine is unctuous in texture and long in the finish. Read more...
JG 93

View From The Cellar, September 2009

(93+) The quality of the botrytis is very exciting in the 2005 Suduiraut, as it seems very clean and really lifts the aromatics on the wine at this early stage. The simply beautiful bouquet offers up a classy mélange of...
NM 93

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, September 2011

Tasted on several occasions most recently at home the Suduiraut '05 is slightly deeper in colour than the 2007. It has a rich almost decadent nose with a conspicuous veneer of vanillary new oak underneath which lies honey...
VN 93

Vinous, June 2025

The 2005 Suduiraut has an intense bouquet of lanolin, dried apricot and subtle hazelnut scents that are well defined and approaching full maturity. The palate is nicely balanced with a viscous, honeyed opened, allied with...
WS 93

Wine Spectator, March 2008

Shows dried pineapple honey pear caramel and piecrust aromas. Full-bodied and very sweet with spice coconut tropical fruit and apple tart flavors. Long and dense yet lively. Best after 2013. 6500 cases made
JR 91

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, February 2017

Tasted blind. Lightly cheesy, exciting nose. Great weight on the palate with unctuous texture and reverberation. A tad brûlée. Finishes just a little suddenly.

WINE DETAILS

Color & Type Dessert
Varietal Sauternes Blend
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-region Sauternes
Vintage 2005
Size 750ML
Percent alcohol 13.5%

Classed as a Premier Cru in 1855, Suduiraut’s grand vin is made from 90% Semillon and 10% Sauvignon Blanc selected from the finest terroirs of the property. This wine is hand crafted at every stage, revealing remarkable finesse and complexity, and a golden color reminiscent of the sun that made it possible.

With age, the bright gold evolves to a dark amber color. With an extensive life-span, Suduiraut powerfully and harmoniously combines fruit and floral aromas with roasted and candied notes. Its superlative elegance comes from a combination of total opposites: voluptuous texture, mineral freshness, and the gentle warmth of spice notes.

The 2005 Chateau Suduiraut Sauternes Blend from Bordeaux is a well-received wine that showcases the excellence of its vintage. This white wine, predominantly made from 97% Sémillon and 3% Sauvignon Blanc, has been described as a standout among Sauternes, particularly noted for its complexity and balance.

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate awarded the wine an impressive score of 96, praising its "deep, complex bouquet of exotic fruits, pineapple, apricot and spices," and a "stunning 'rôti'" character attributed to noble rot. The wine is noted for its "rich and concentrated" nature, with a "long, mineral and saline finish" that suggests a gastronomic bitterness, making it a splendid choice for connoisseurs.

James Suckling gave the wine an exceptional 97, emphasizing its "great intensity" and describing it as "powerful stuff," potentially the best of the 2005 vintage. The Wine & Spirits magazine also rated it at 96, highlighting its "explosively sweet" flavors with "fresh nectarine, scents of jasmine and honeysuckle," and a balance that makes the sweetness inseparable from its freshness.

The wine’s bouquet has repeatedly been noted for its intensity and complexity, with Vinous mentioning aromas of "lanolin, dried apricot, and subtle hazelnut," while Wine Spectator focused on "dried pineapple, honey, pear, caramel, and piecrust aromas."

Jeb Dunnuck described it as having a "rockingly good perfume of orange blossom, caramelized grapefruit, flower oil, spice, and brioche," with a score of 96. A consensus across reviews suggests that the wine's balance of sweetness and vibrancy is a key feature, with its "unctuous texture" and "lovely weight on the finish," as noted by various reviewers, making it a wine that continues to age well.

Overall, the 2005 Chateau Suduiraut is a complex, richly flavored wine with a remarkable balance of sweetness and acidity, praised for its elegance and potential to develop further over time.