'98 Points - Wine Advocate - Wine Advocate

(a 50/50 blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon, with residual sugar of 199 grams per liter) Full medium gold. High-toned, remarkably complex and vibrant aromas of fresh apricot, pineapple, barley sugar, linden tea, Benedictine, white flowers, coconut and honey. A high-wire act of thick, honeyed, marmaladey botrytized fruit and blazing pineapple acidity. Really explodes with spice in the mouth and finishes with exhilarating, rising length. Almost painful today, and built for 30 to 40 years of life in bottle. This hugely rich special bottling was made via a berry-by-berry hand picking, and owner/winemaker Denis Dubourdieu, who is also a professor of enology, routinely uses some crushed grape skins to nourish the indigenous yeasts so that they are able to chew through freakishly high grape sugars. Don't try this kind of winemaking at home!