R Rieussec

On nose: the aroma is not obvious, flint, cumin, yogurt On mouth: the acidity is low to mid, minerals, honey. Like oil, smooth. Easy to drink, not lots of complexity. Butter like

2021 vintage

Consistent with previous.

2021 vintage

Drink now. Atypical and intriguing nose leads to an OK drink. Mint and anise aromatics so there’s that.

2014 vintage

Simple profile. Light straw in colour. Grass , minerality and passionfruit/citrus coming through. The minerality is v pleasant, reminiscent of chablis. There's not much of the semillon coming through which is disappointing for me. Slight pleasant bitterness coming through as well. It's a good "sauvignon blanc" but not a good "bordeaux blenc" if i can put it this way. The semillon comes through slightly as it warns in glass. It seems that the philosophy here was to use the semillon …

2021 vintage

A lot of money for an ordinary wine experience. Bought it because I have had many excellent bottles of their Sauternes - my advice - stick to their Sauternes.

2021 vintage

Very interesting wine. Notes of Apple cider and some citrus darker yellow in appearance. Not objectionable, but I believe far past it’s drinking window. A most unusual Sauvignon blanc.

2006 vintage

Color is medium lemon. This wine needs to be a little warmer to release the aroma. Medium to deep grass, a hint of green pepper but also some passion fruit and honey. Medium to high acidic. Dry with medium alcohol and body. Medium intensity in taste with similar but added some wet stone. Definitely a little bit of barrels.

2021 vintage

The bouquet is still reticent and a bit reductive. The wine shows some minerals, white and yellow fruits, some oak and pleasant bitterness. Good complexity and will improve with some more ageing.

2021 vintage

White January : Iron and minerals with a touch of peach. Extremely young wine. 92-93p

2021 vintage

Client dining rooms. Consistent with previous. With halibut, cavalo, champagne sauce

2021 vintage

At the Sky Pavillion. Continue to find this a lovely and balanced expression of white bordeaux, ripe and generous while balanced and fresh.

2021 vintage

An exploration of Bordeaux - 2016 vintage (Le Pont, Milsons Point) : Lees work, cream, gooseberry, apple, a little sweet spice. Juicy tends to medium plus intensity acidity, tangy textured burr has woody undertones, slightly bitter apple skin, apple, gooseberry, slight non-intrusive alcohol warmth. Pleasant but (at 125AUD) very expensive for what it is...

2021 vintage

Airy and fruity, much more Sauvignon character than Semillon, but not green in a vegetal way... Aromas of pomelo, green apple, peach, guava, papaya, salty sweaty stuff, a little citrus blossom and the merest hint of vanilla and oak spice.... almost full on the palate, but very lively and fresh, there's gorgeous fruit, pristine fruit, this kind of serious but fruity style is rather unexpected for "big-name" white Bordeaux, and I was bracing for more oak. Finish is fruity and …

2021 vintage

Drink this young- excellent but once primary fruit fades would not expect to age well given lack of structure. Drank out at dinner. I had half of the bottle. Vvv

2021 vintage

Light and refreshing and very balanced.

2021 vintage

Thought this was way better than the last showing - maybe better glassware. Nose is lovely, coconut, appe, smells savoury but also has a rounded honey note. Beautiful texture on the palate, rounded without being ripe, juicy acidity but finished with a lovely creaminess. Apple, pear, maybe melon. Complex and super interesting. Excellent.

2014 vintage

Lovely white. Had a really nice rounded taste with really long finish. Some coconut, apple and pear fruit. Great value.

2014 vintage

Another nice showing on this one. Versatile, lots of food pairing options. This time we had a savory stuffed pork chop dish and that worked. The other white meat! Pale coloring, lighter citrus and herb aromas. Lightweight mouthful. Good now.

2014 vintage

This was a fun bottle I carted along on vacation. Light on its feet, a bit grassy. Pale golden color, light lemon-lime citrus core. Good salad wine. Drinking well now, I would say enjoy in next 1-2 yrs.

2014 vintage

my last bottle and this was the best... tropical fruits, citrus, creamy/leesy texture... balanced... i don't find this as oaky as others do, more leesy, creamy semilon-y than toasty, baking spice oaky for me...

2014 vintage

Served against a quiche and spring mix salad. Wine is darker, more earthy than I recall. Pale brass hue. And it turned salty with air time, which was interesting. Nice citrus core, but that darker/earthy quality did better with the pie crust. Good weight on the palate, a food wine. Enjoy now or could hold a couple years.

2013 vintage

After an hour and a half decant this wine was STILL dominated by oak . This is a Bordeaux blanc sec...not a Grand cru.... . It should not have been finished in New oak, but either stainless steel, or older oak barrels. The nose was very muted,and showed only oak and faint smoke.... . on the palate I found vague hints of pineapple and citrus, there was no clarity, no minerality, due to the overbearing oak.... . aging will not …

2014 vintage

Grassy tropical nose. Pink grapefruit, pineapple marmalade, grass and straw on the palate. Touch of botrytis, which seems a bit out of place, but in a good way that adds some character to this wine. I agree that it would probably benefit from further aging.

2014 vintage

Lonny Might Be Turning Sixty (Tilia, Mpls) : Pale gold color. Drank a 1.75 oz pour over 30 minutes. This was fun as we don't get these too often. Lemon and citrus, lime infused, balanced and light, lovely mineral expression. Excellent with the fish torta.

2013 vintage

Ripe and sultry, though perhaps not all of what it will be a few more years down the road. As a member of the Sauternes producer’s alphabet club for dry whites, the ‘R’ follows a tough act (D’Yquem ‘Y’, of course) but does so with dignity. This bottle admittedly seemed a bit off upon first opening, but with a decant those initially unpleasant notes blew off and left behind a very pleasant wine. The nose was almost immediately into tropical …

2014 vintage

Drank this at Kaiware Tei last night to celebrate Father's Day. Wine i straw yellow in colour and had an aromatic and floral nose of lime, green apples and elder flowers. Good weight, structure and character and paired well with the range of food items which we had. On the body the wine is clean and lean. Long finish of fresh lime and green fruits.

2013 vintage

Roughly half sauvignon to half semillon in this vintage. The nose conveys powerful aromas of musky pear skin, apple and flowers with sauvignon-derived top notes of grapefruit oil and gooseberry. The wine is amply broad in the mouth with a gentle sweetness to its plush fruits. A firm (almost foursquare) acidic backbone holds everything together, lending a sense of focus. Feels age-worthy too. Very nice.

2013 vintage

better than first bottle... more open and aromatically intense

2014 vintage

Pretty consistent with last note. Like it. Mild - or would subtle be a better word. Sauv blanc comes through more this time, tart apricot. At $22 not the greatest QPR ever but has an elegance that doesn't necessarily need to be dirt cheap.

2014 vintage

Light color, straw yellow rim. Aromatically a bit muted... as much semillon as SB on the nose, no new oak i could detect, no strong malo smells... on the palate a nice combination of both with the ripping acidity of SB and the palate weight of semillon... dry. Well balanced wine with shortish length, ok intensity, ok complexity. Great finesse and expression of place. Drink now... loved this wine for its positives which it delivers at a great price as …

2014 vintage

Focused, precise, pretty. Lengthy finish lingers on a spine of elevated, but harmonious acidity. Classic bordeaux blanc nose, good texture. Great QPR.

2014 vintage

A beautiful white Bordeaux - smooth

2014 vintage

Really like this. Kind of a floral nose, balanced, sort of silky and tart. Agree with prior notes that the semillon shows through, but the tart sauv blanc is there too.

2014 vintage

Friends Fall Gathering; 11/11/2016-11/12/2016 (Fresno) : 90-92: Really enjoyed this. Nice texture and lots of tropical fruit, especially near the back. Semillon really shows through.

2014 vintage

A good showing, starting to be a "go-to" for me when looking for a white with freshness and menu flexibility. Lively, tastes like Sauv Blanc led and that's appreciated. Clean, bright citrus. Can play with salads and seafood. Pale coloring, bright nose, pretty in the glass. A white Bordeaux for Chablis lovers.

2013 vintage

Medium-full-bodied and really dry, with a sherried tinge. It seems like it's mostly Semillion... (in actuality 54% Semillon, 46% Sauvignon Blanc). Great with mussels. 88-89

2014 vintage

great value. nice round richness up front, but still light and mineraly and acidic on the finish. i can imagine this rounding out very nicely with age, but why wait? it's delicious and fresh now.

2014 vintage

DTC 2016-01; Bordeaux 2006. (@ SS) : The bouquet is not extremely expressive and shows yellow fruits like bananas. On the palate yellow fruits, butter candy, vanilla, a touch of sweetness and good fresh citrus acidity. Some pleasant bitterness in the finish. High viscosity; glycerin. Beautiful wine and much better than expected after reading back my note from 2009. 87 - 88

2006 vintage

Crisp, tart, with a touch of tropical to the fruit. It's bright, stony, and absolutely refreshing. A terrific drink and great value. A-

2013 vintage

I was not a lover of white varietals until I tried this wine from a fluke purchase. Very soft aroma; floral with crisp apple; not overly sweet and a rather pleasing dryness at the finish. Thought my mind was playing tricks on me. Conundrum was the only white I could say was enjoyable before trying this wine. My Cab friends may disown me after reading this.

2013 vintage

Lasted well enough, but age had brought too little additional complexity - suspect it really needs a little more Semillon than Sauvignon for that.

2006 vintage

Wine Education Service - White Bordeaux (LSE) : Light gold with a hint of green. Mineral oaky nose. Rich and creamy with an oily note, well balanced and very long.

2006 vintage

Light gold core. Clearly some age on the wine. Nose citrusy and somewhat tropical. Not entirely fresh. Aged or oxidized? Palate similar with woody/waxy notes and broad flavours. Moderate acidity. Medium length. Moderate alcohol. Expected more from Rieussec but the price is not outrageous. Drink now.

2006 vintage

Dark yellow, seemed to have thebest beyond it.

2002 vintage

Pleasant and in balance but nothing distinctive. Certainly not disappointing at the price.

2006 vintage

Very woodsy on the nose, with evident oak influence that's not all that well integrated as of now. Some nice vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple and honeyed notes lurking beneath that at the moment. The parts are there for this to improve a bit over time as it integrates, but I don't think it'll ever be outstanding. Not great value at $17.99, which is surprising given the pedigree of the producer. 86-88.

2006 vintage

Nice balance of crisp and herbal acidity with a rich waxy body; great example of white Bordeaux does best.

2006 vintage

Not completely fresh. Not necessarily corked. So I score it for my own reference. For the rest a quite average white Bordeaux. Pleasant citrus and some tropical fruits. I don't think this will gain much by ageing.

2006 vintage

Much more differnet from the previous bottle. Notes of melon and some minerals. A nice richness to the wine undercut with elegant acidity and balance. Drinks reasonably well on its own, but this would benefit from food as well. Overall good.

2006 vintage

2006 Château Rieussec R (Frankrijk, Bordeaux, Bordeaux Contrôlée) Kleur: Middel goudgeel Aroma / bouquet: Gemiddeld aromatisch en gemiddeld complex. Het aroma is enerzijds fris met tonen van citrus, vooral grapefruit, maar heeft anderzijds ook een aangename rijpheid: perzik, passievrucht, beetje gist-tonen. Klassiek bordeaux waarin de semillion duidelijk te herkennen is. Smaak / Afdronk: In de smaakbeleving ligt het accent duidelijk meer op de frisse tonen, een knisperend zuurtje, maar wel met een rond mondgevoel. Algemeen / potentieel: Een aangename en …

2006 vintage

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