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Fri, May 31, 2024 03:00PM EDT - Sun, Jun 2, 2024 09:00PM EDT
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Lot 26
2009 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes Premier Cru Superieur - 6 bottle(s)-750ml
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This lot is comprised of 6 bottle(s) of 2009 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes Premier Cru Superieur - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $4000 - $5500 with a BUY IT NOW of $4650. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11151.
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This consignor’s career in wine started at the "Big Y" wine store in Northampton, MA as he was finishing his degree at UMass Amherst. Diploma in hand, he worked as a Sommelier and began touring Europe as a wine buyer for the Big Y. After touring Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy & the Rhone with dinners in Michelin starred restaurants and wine tastings directly from the Grand Cru barrels, he was hired as a Stagiaire to the winemaker at Domaine Jacques Prieur for the 1996 vintage. That turned into a job at Hamilton Russell Estates in South Africa as an Assistant Winemaker for the 1997 vintage. These wines are the product of many of those days and most were purchased from the wineries directly. His family has cellars in the Jura, near St Emilion, and in his home in Cabbagetown. All his wines have been impeccably cellared with no risk of temperature abuse. Older vintages were shipped in a temperature-controlled container inside big styrofoam boxes in 1999 when he moved from France to Canada. They've been in the Toronto cellar ever since. He needs to downsize, hence this tendering to auction.
The score for 2009 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes Premier Cru Superieur is 100 from Robert Parker and the tasting note - In comparison to the 2010 vintage, the 2009 d'Yquem is more concentrated with a stunning "rôti," the consequence of noble rot in French. Developing a powerful, complex bouquet with aromas of pineapple, apricot, saffron, flowers, spices and orchard fruits, it’s dense and concentrated, full-bodied and layered with a crystalline texture complicated by notes of white truffles that reveal a racy, endless and a superb finish concluding with a pristine harmony. Readers with bottles in their cellars will have to be patient before opening this masterpiece with 155 grams of residual sugar.