Chateau d'Arche A de Chateau d’Arche Bordeaux Blanc 2021
Chateau d'Arche A de Chateau d’Arche Bordeaux Blanc 2021
91 Points - Hudun.com. The A de Château d’Arche Bordeaux Blanc is the dry white wine from the Sauternes Grand Cru Classe, Château d’Arche. 2021 was an outstanding vintage for white Bordeaux wines as growers were able to harvest before the rains came. A blend of 85% Semillon and 15% Sauvignon Blanc, the grapes came from selected plots that weren’t affected by botrytis, the fungus that makes Sauternes sweet. The grapes were hand-harvested and hand-sorted before being gently pressed and fermented in a mixture of temperature-controlled stainless vats and oak barrels. Prior to release it was aged for 6 months. 45% of the harvest was aged in stainless steel, 45% in year-old Sauternes barrels, and 10% in new oak casks. This complex ageing process adds richness and complexity while retaining A de Château d’Arche’s natural freshness.
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Vivino Rating: 4.5 (Nov 2024)
Wine Press Ratings
91 Points - Hudun.com
Taste
The A de Château d’Arche 2021 has a lovely green-gold hue. The bouquet is an alluring mix of zesty grapefruit, peaches, pears, and honey. The palate is just as complex, offering fresh tones of pears, peaches, lemons, grapefruit and just-ripe passion fruit, with vanilla, honey, apricots, and dry, savoury minerals. Medium-bodied, there’s a Sauternes-like richness to it that will build over time. Bone dry, it still offers a vivid taste of place, with peripheral, almost ghostly, notes of Sauternes to it that just add to the interest of this fascinating wine.
About the Producer
Château d’Arche is a Sauternes Grand Cu Classe. It was one of only 58 Bordeaux châteaux to be included in the famous 1855 Classification where it was awarded Deuxieme Cru Classe or second growth status. This ancient property lies in the Sauternes commune within the region of Graves, itself home to many of Bordeaux’s greatest dry white wines. Château d’Arche owes much of its acclaim to its position on a gravel ridge that not only gives exceptional drainage but leaves vines exposed to botrytis cinerea, the noble rot that is essential to the area’s exquisite, sweet wines. The A de Château d’Arche Bordeaux Blanc is a dry white wine produced from grapes that haven’t been affected by botrytis. Following a poor period in the 1960s and 1970s, in 1981 it came under the control of the leading Bordeaux figure Pierre Perromat who returned it to its former glory. Since 1994 it’s been managed by Chateau Palmer’s owners Malher-Besse and the quality has continued to soar
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