The wine was already much appreciated by famous connoisseurs of the period, such as Thomas Jefferson. She built a new wine cellar in with her steward Garos — an audacious step at the time — transforming the estate into a true business and developing its international reputation. It was during her time as head of Yquem that the method of picking in several passes was perfected.
It offers a myriad of well-balanced, complex flavours that generate even more harmonies over time. There is a lovely expression in French to describe Yquem's tremendously long aftertaste: il fait la queue du paon, which means that it spreads out like a peacock's tail.
It is always difficult to describe wine-tasting experiences with any precision. The senses of sight, smell, taste and touch are all stimulated virtually at the same time. While gifted tasters can identify some of the aromas and flavours in a glass of Yquem in an effort to define its complexity, they never really succeed in communicating its essence or explaining its mystery.
Mere analysis, whether chemical or organoleptic, is not sufficient to account for Yquem's greatness. Yquem tells a unique story It starts with the bouquet. Although not always very outgoing in young vintages, it is marked by fruit apricot, mandarin, and occasionally tropical fruit and oak vanilla and toasty aromas. Vanneque said he planned to drink it on the 50th anniversary of his career in wine.
Yquems, which are Sauternes, sweet wines from Bordeaux, are known for their exceptional longevity. This wine is older than my grandparents. Even a vintage goes for a few hundred dollars.
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