FEATURES
🏰 The 2018 Chateau Rieussec is a luscious and elegant Sauternes, renowned for its ability to produce complex, ageable sweet wines. This vintage, from a chateau committed to organic certification, promises a harmonious balance of concentrated fresh, tropical, and candied fruit flavors, with a racy salinity and mineral structure. It's a versatile sweet wine that challenges traditional perceptions, offering a delightful experience beyond just dessert.
🍴 Chateau Rieussec Sauternes sings when paired with a wide range of dishes, not just foie gras or Roquefort. It's excellent with roast poultry (especially roast chicken), spicy Asian cuisine (like tandoori or ginger crab), shellfish (oysters, lobster), and various cheeses (both hard and soft). It can also act as a fruit chutney on turkey or a citrus squeeze on yams.
🥂 Perfect for a festive gathering, a gourmet meal, or as a unique and memorable gift. Its versatility makes it suitable for enjoying anytime, whether midday or midnight, and it's a fantastic conversation starter for those looking to explore beyond traditional sweet wine pairings.
BACKGROUND
Chateau Rieussec is a wine producer located in Fargues, in the Sauternes appellation in Bordeaux. The 93 hectares (230 acres) of vineyards are planted mostly with Semillon, alongside plots of Sauvignon Blanc and a small amount of Muscadelle. The terroir in Sauternes helps the spread of Botrytis cinerea,and Rieussec's grapes are hand-harvested as they are affected by noble rot. The best bunches are used to make the grand vin, which after fermentation spends 26 months in oak, about half new. All other juice isused to make the second wine, Carmes de Rieussec, which is only aged for 18 months. A dry white wine, R de Rieussec, is made from a blend of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc and is partially barrel-fermented.
