2020 | Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey | Sauternes Golden Edition

Since the 2016 vintage, Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey has released a very limited series featuring the ornate engraving "Woman and Raisins" by the famous Frnech jeweller, medallist, and glass designer René Lalique. The Lalique factory in Alsace engraves the empty bottles and are then send back to the château each June for bottling. This collaboration between Lalique and Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey offers a combination of Sauternes gold and Alsatian excellence. Medium yellow gold, silver reflections. Candied orange zest, yellow tropical fruit, underlaid with fine wood nuances, a hint of honey. Juicy, ripe peach and pineapple fruit, integrated sweetness, fine acidity, silky and well-balanced, elegant. Open, accessible style

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2020 Lafaurie-Peyraguey has a pale gold color, prancing out of the glass with beguiling scents of candied citrus peel, pineapple upside-down cake, powdered ginger and honeycomb, over a core of dried apricots and apple pie, plus a waft of lime blossoms. The palate has impressive poise and grace, countering the sweet richness with a lively backbone and delivering loads of stone fruit and spiced apple flavors, finishing long and perfumed. Beautiful!

• James Suckling: This is a dense, layered Sauternes for the vintage, with lots of dried apple, peach and orange, as well as spicy undertones from the botrytis. It’s full-bodied and flavorful. Serious for the vintage.

Producer Information

The castle of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey was initially used as a fortress in the 13th century. The first vines were only planted a few centuries later. In 1618, the estate was bought by Sieur Raymond Peyraguey and he named his property after himself. It was not until hundreds of years later that the château came into the hands of Pierre Lafeurie, who then linked his name to the estate. This is how it got its current name. The château is part of the Premier Grand Cru Classé of the 1855 Bordeaux classification. The winery is located in the heart of Sauternes and the vineyards are adjacent to those of the legendary winery Château d'Yquem. The vineyards cover 18.5 hectares. Of this area, 93% is planted with Semillon, 6% with Sauvignon Blanc and only 1% with Muscadelle. The winery also has one very special plot in production: Maisons Rouge. This is one of the oldest walled vineyards in the area. The soil consists of gravel, clay and a lot of limestone. This combination provides the right balance and complexity. Harvesting is an intensive and time-consuming process. It is essential that the grapes have been affected by noble rot and that they are properly ripe. Yields are extremely low, each plot yielding only 13 hectoliters per hectare. Both fermentation and maturation take place in French barriques. The proportion of new wood is 60% on average. Barrel aging takes an average of 18-20 months. La Chapelle de Lafaurie Peyraguey is the second wine of the winery. In addition, they also produce two dry wines, called Le Brut de Lafaurie and Le Lys de Lafaurie-Peygraguey.

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