Chateau Guiraud Premier Cru Sauternes 2009

Chateau Guiraud 2009 is a Premier Cru Sauternes offering concentrated sweetness balanced by freshness and structure. Its profile combines dried apricot, pineapple, white peach, honey, floral notes, and exotic fruit with a dense, layered palate and persistent finish shaped by noble rot.

Food Pairing: Pairs best with foie gras, Roquefort cheese, apricot tart, and seared duck breast.

96 Points - James Suckling

Gorgeous aromas of dried apricots, apple pie crust and pineapple. Full-bodied, with medium sweetness. Dense and layered. Beautiful now but will improve with age. Drink or hold.

96 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Tasted as part of a vertical held at the chateau. The 2009 Guiraud has a complex, precocious bouquet with honeysuckle and jasmine notes, hints of dried honey and white peach. It is tightly wound but very precise. The palate is pure and tense in the mouth - great precision here once again with superbly integrated oak and a lovely, seductive, very viscous botrytis-laden finish. In many ways the 2009 represents the wine that every vintage since 1983 would love to be. Drink 2018-2040+.

96 Points - Wine Spectator

This is a bird of a different feather, with an exotic, vibrant aroma of toasted coconut, followed by an almond cream note that gives way to the core of green fig, papaya, Cavaillon melon and honey. There's stunning richness and mouthfeel, with the power to be one of the longer-lived wines of the vintage. Very impressive. Best from 2015 through 2040.

94 Points - Wine Enthusiast

This is a smoky, rich wine that shows evident wood aging. This feature adds weight, though the sweetness is currently muted. It is a wine with potential intensity; the fruit and acidity will emerge in several years.