Chateau Sigalas Rabaud Premier Cru Classe, Sauternes

Tastes like Christmas, with orange and lemon peel wrapped inside a fruit cake mix. Sultanas abound. Drank after dinner over two evenings three weeks apart. Kept in fridge with no ill effects.

2003 vintage

Tastes like Christmas, with orange and lemon peel wrapped inside a fruit cake mix. Sultanas abound. Enjoyed after dinner over a couple of evenings three weeks apart. Kept in fridge with no ill effects.

2003 vintage

Rich colour, fine nose, good intensity. Previous bottles reviewed by others must have been flawed, as this one (in a cold cellar since 1985) was fine.

1983 vintage

Smells of sugared orange, vanilla, cinnamon, caramel apple. There is also caramelised onion or mushroom which is what usually upsets me about sweet wines. Lemon marmalade, orange soda, white peach, warm honey, orange cookie. Juicy in the palate with acidity despite the high sugar. Orange marmalade, grapefruit, green apple, confiture, apple syrup, dried apricot. Lemon soda finish, slight candy. 8+/18

2013 vintage

Bastille Days - Tours de France; 7/14/2023-7/16/2023 : (from 375ml bottle). gold colour and moderately viscous in the glass. the nose is a lovely melange of tropical fruit, sweet spices and fresh flowers and lead directly into those luscious flavours in the mouth, where a delightful citric acidity lifts and delineates them. guava, mango, apricot, peach, clove, ginger, lime zest, and other flavours play out with the just-waxy honey botrytis core. good concentration and agreable sweetness with a long finish. …

2013 vintage

2008 Burg blind tasting. Dessert wine. This was quite dense and sweet with smoke, apricot and bakery spices. I clearly prefer Riesling to Sauternes for its greater freshness.

2003 vintage

Bu avec un Lieutenant. Liège de luxe (vs comprimé) Robe dorée et concentrée (Lt plus claire mois sur l'or). Nez de macaron, coco, miel, le coco se dissipe après une bonne aération. Bouche puissante, longue, touche de sucre brun, sauce HP, agrumes et miel. (Le Lt. est plus précis selon nous).

2013 vintage

My first bottle of this. 375cc. Really beautiful nuanced Sauternes. Not at all overly sweet, tasting closer to a VT than true sticky, but with botrytis character of honey and apricot. Worked great with panna cotta w/ saffron. Perhaps a spot more acid would be nice, but seemed very balanced given the residual sugar is not sky high. Nicely done. Punching way above its weight.

2003 vintage

Bu en demi. Sur la pêche et le caramel salé. Pas mal ample et sucré, une impression de dattes et de figues en millieu de bouche. Pas leplus long mais sans accroc. Très bon.

2013 vintage

Demie bouteille. Robe jaune légèrement dorée. Nez: ananas, marmelade, petite touche de bois. Bouche fidèle au nez avec une bonne concentration, du sucre d’orge, de l’ananas. Belle complexité et relativement digeste. Très Barsac dans le style. Au début de sa phase d’évolution et sera à son apogée d’ici 3-5 ans. Ceci dit, n’hésitez pas à ouvrir une bouteille dès maintenant si, comme moi, vous aimez vos sauternes autour de 10 ans.

2013 vintage

Golden colour. Plenty of richness and plush sweet fruit. Lots of Botrytis and acidity just enough to prevent cloying. Gorgeous but seemed to lack a bit of pedigee initially. Tried two days later and more exotic and exciting so still loads of time and think it will be one of the best wines this chateau has produced.

2003 vintage

While already amber in colour this has aged very well. A clean expression of dried fruits and flowers. Viscous texture, not overly sweet and with enough freshness. Generally I don't fancy dessert wines but this is nice. Far from decline.

2003 vintage

Sigalas Ribaud (375 ML) 2003 is medium bodied wine. The apricot, pinapple, honey and vanilla flavors hits the right spots. Well balanced with nicely integrated oak.

2003 vintage

Very deep bronze center (brown), orange rim with signs of age. Sweet nose, sugar and botrytis, brown sugar and caramelized lemons, hazelnuts and a such of acetone. Smooth and sweet, low tannin and acid, nutty, great length. Excellent Sauterne, fully mature, drink now.

2003 vintage

Balanced, good length but still fairly youthful. Will be interesting to revisit in a few years’ time.

2003 vintage

At Wine Society Dining Club Christmas Tasting. Dark gold to amber. Light butterscotch nose. Light and pleasant.

2003 vintage

Note: I use a scale on which 85 represents a very good wine. Drank this over a few days. Rich, full flavored. Dark honey in color. All that one could as for in a Sauternes, at least all I can ask for. Drink up.

2003 vintage

Light on its feet with enough acidity to balance

2003 vintage

Orange zest, caramel, spices, honeyed fruit on the nose. Expressive, generous, intense. On the palate concentrated and rather rich but not cloying, spicy, long. Very good. 92-94

2003 vintage

Young and filled with equal amounts of promise and sweet, honeyed, tropical fruits, there is a distinctive orange and nectarine component that adds to the floral and honey aromas. There is freshness and energy that keeps all that honeyed fruit on its heels. This is quite tasty, but it will be much better with another 7-10 years in the bottle.

2013 vintage

(from blind Sauternes tasting) candied lemon peal, faint white peach. Pretty mouth with brightness, but not a standout.

2013 vintage

Bronze center, yellow to pale rim. Sweet, botrytis, honey, citrus, roast banana, guava. Smooth and sweet, honey, tropical fruit, fresh bread, modest acidity and tannin, very good length. Very good Sauterne from an atypical year. Shows well even with the low acidity. Good to drink now.

2003 vintage

Bloemig, acacia, honing, abrikozen en perziken. Niet te zoet, hele goede balans in zuren en zoet, mooie lange afdronk

2013 vintage

Amsterdam UGC Tasting and Winemakers' Dinner (Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky / Café De Klepel) : Good weight, rich and velvety, but actually neither very powerful nor very refined.

2013 vintage

Light fresh, borderline aperitif (if you like your pre-prandial on the sweet side!)

2003 vintage

Much darker in colour than the 2010, slight whiskey character on the nose, marzipan, dried fruit, honey. Very big and sweet, lacking a bit of acidity, very deep honeyed flavours, intense and long. 92-94.

2003 vintage

The wine was sweet. It was deep, complex and fine.

2013 vintage

1983 vs. 1986 Sauternes Blind Tasting (Menlo Park, CA) : Tasted blind. Color was darker orange than others; faded nose, thin; palate is similarly thin, good sweetness, fresh, simple, slight tartness; short finish. I wrote "lower end sauternes" and ranked it last. Uninspiring. 84

1983 vintage

Great Sauternes ... sweet taste, but no overkill on the taste buds.

2003 vintage

Expressiv nose of baked pineapple, vanilla, dried white grapes from Panetone, a hint of coconut milk. Some taster found some chritmas tea...Mouth deep, concentrated, powerfull and mouth fulling. Almost as surprising as the nose. Exceptional for every one. Sigalas has never disapointed me. The question of the acidity has not came to my mind. The balance was good enough to forget it ?

2003 vintage

Surprisingly floral, actually inexplicably floral for a Sauternes. Mirabelles vanilla dried apricots but there is this weird note of burnt plastic also in the palate. In addition this lacks acidity and all in all this feels like a sugar syrup, exactly what sweet wines shouldnt be... Hope for the best!

2003 vintage

Sweet fruits and fresh vibrant flavors, just what the doctor ordered. Add a perfume with floral, vanilla, apricot, pineapple and honey scents coupled with lush, round, but lively fruits and you have the recipe for this wine.

2003 vintage

Blind Tasting '04-'10 Dampt Chablis (Tom's House, Palo Alto, CA) : Metallic, copper penny, apricot nose. Metallic, dried apricot palate. Kind of shrill, a lot of the sweetness is gone. This bottle was over the hill.

1983 vintage

dried fruit, odd metal taste, on the nose. this wine is done.

1983 vintage

Not on the same level as my previous bottle, wonderful pairing with the goat cheese though.

2003 vintage

Marzipan, coconut lotion nose. Honeyed, almond, coconut, creme brulee palate with notable burnt sugar and a weird dose of oyster sauce complexity. Very enjoyable.

2003 vintage

Sauternes at Le Weekend des Grand Crus 2012 (Bordeaux) : Nose: fried apple, winter apples, botrytis, some petrol notes, spice. Palate: spice, heather honey, rather good acidity, citrus and yellow apple. Well developed, fresh and elegant for a 2003. 92-93 p

2003 vintage

White peaches and honey with some apricot, elegant and well balanced, not at all stodgy or over-concentrated, this is drinking beautifully and should do so for many years to come.

2003 vintage

Little botrytis, more fruity and light bouquet with hints of melon, citrus. On the palate this is light bodied, with a shortish finish. Still q pleasant and a good drinking wine as it is not overpowering, balanced and easily accessible.

2003 vintage

apple juice

1983 vintage

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