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Château Guiraud
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2024
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Apricots, pineapples, flowers, spices, and candied lemon, with a hint of caramel form the attention-seeking perfume. On the palate, the wine is equal to the aromatics offering vibrant, sweet, tropical fruits, candied orange rind, and lemon curd notes in a racy, honeyed style. The wine is made from blending 62% Semillon, and 38% Sauvignon Blanc. Drink from 2027-2047. 94-96 Pts 844 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2024
Château Guiraud 'G' Sec (Bordeaux)
Flowers, lemon curd, and hints of white peach fill the perfume. Racy, vibrant citrus with a touch of bitter pineapple, and pomelo skins create the edgy finish. The wine blends 65% Sauvignon Blanc with 35% Semillon. Drink from 2026-2032. 91-91 Pts 613 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Floral, sweet, and energetic, with pineapples, lemon curd, honeysuckle, candied mangos, and roasted nuts, with a touch of saffron coming in at the end of the nose. Perfectly perched between its sweet, and racy side, with length, purity, freshness, and sweetness, yet it remains light on its feet. This seems to be a new era for Guiraud, with Sandrine Garbay in charge. Drink from 2027-2050. 95-97 Pts. 2,687 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
The debut vintage for Sandrine Garaby pops as soon as the wine hits your glass with notes of honeyed pineapples, custard, saffron, ginger snaps, crème brûlée, and flowers that fill the perfume. The palate is even better with its energetic jolt of luscious, sweet, tropical fruits bathed in honey with more of that saffron complexity that comes in at the end of the finish. Drink from 2026-2055. 2,106 Views Tasted Mar 25, 2025Honeysuckle, roasted nuts, ginger, and pineapple nuances are everywhere here. The palate, with its freshness, sweet, lemon curd, and pineapple, with a touch of chalk hits everything just right. This is the debut of this new wine from Guiraud which is the brainchild of Sandrine Garbay. The wine truly tastes exactly like what you want from a dry Sauternes. Drink from 2025-2035. 730 Views Tasted Mar 1, 2025The first vintage with Sandrine Garaby, formerly of Chateau d'Yquem in charge is the winner you knew it would be. The wine is intense, rich, deep, and manages to balance its layers of roasted, ripe, and over ripe pineapples, mango, candied orange, vanilla, almond, and apricots perfectly. The fruits are slathered with honey, yet they retain that all important freshness as well. Drink from 2025-2050. 94-96 Pts. 2,720 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2020
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
With a lean to the orange side of the style range you find a wealth of candied mangos, roasted tangerine, orange rind, and apricots with nuances of roasted nuts, flowers, spice, and honey. The racy, vibrant finish provides a balance between its decadently sweet, orange tropical fruits, pineapples, and white peaches topped with honey, spice, and racy freshness. Drink from 2023-2050. 1,898 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Roasted nuts, pears, pineapple, white peach, mango and honeysuckle make a gorgeous perfume. On the palate the wine shines with its perfect balance between all the decadently sweet pineapples and candied apricots coated with honey, and ample refreshing acidity keeping everything balanced between sweet and fresh. 93-95 Pts 3,860 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2020
Château Guiraud Grand Vin Blanc Sec (Bordeaux)
Apricots, almonds, flowers, and a dab of honey create the perfume. The palate is even better with its layers of lusciously-textured, oranges, candied lemon, and notes of white peach that show up in the vibrant, creamy finish. This is the debut of this new wine from Guiraud which is the brainchild of Sandrine Garbay. The wine truly tastes exactly like what you want from a dry Sauternes. Drink from 2023-2035. 92 Pts 805 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023 |
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2019
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
White peach, flowers, roasted pears, grilled nuts, orange tropical fruits, candied apricot and honey nuts are all over the place here. The wine triangulates its richness, sweetness and racy orange and yellow, honeyed fruits with ease. Drink from 2023-2045. 2,817 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022White peach, yellow tropical fruits, candied orange rind and honeysuckle make their presence known on the nose and palate. The wine is fresh, lively and comes with a bit of spice with honeyed fruit and vanilla in the finish. 92-94 Pts 4,382 Views Tasted Jun 9, 2020 |
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2019
Château Guiraud 'G' Sec (Bordeaux)
Combining bright grapefruit and orange peel with hints of vanilla bean in the nose, the wine is fresh, lifted, oily and long on the palate, with a generous serving of more of that orange peel and pomelo in the finish. 5,037 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2017
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Fresh, sweet, honeyed, and floral, the wine serves up a nice blend of brown sugar, mangoes, orange peel, vanilla and caramel. Rich as well as peppy, so everything holds together and ages perfectly. 5,098 Views Tasted May 17, 2020Pineapple, mango, white peach and candied orange rind are blended together and topped with vanilla bean and honey to make this a confectionary extravagance. But like all the great sweet wines, it's the harmonizing acidity that's needed to bring freshness 2,297 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Bright, candied citrus rind, pineapples, mango, and honey-topped, oranges with caramel, flowers, and ginger accents. This is one of those Sauternes that can be paired with spicy meals, or, buttery seafood as it balances its sweetness with vibrant acidities. Drink from 2024-2045. 2,988 Views Tasted Jan 26, 2024Fresh, ripe and overripe sweet pineapple, mango, apricot and white peach fruits are all wrapped up quite nicely with vanilla and honey coated nuts. 3,446 Views Tasted Feb 11, 2019Juicy pineapple, apricot, peach and vanilla blend to create the nose. Rich, lush and sweet, the wine finishes with overripe tropical fruits coated with honey. 3,240 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Combine a cornucopia of tropical fruits with orange zest, a jar of honey, vanilla bean and just picked flowers, and you get the picture. Delicious, concentrated, lush and remarkably fresh, this is going to age for decades. 5,213 Views Tasted Mar 12, 2018A stunner in 2015, this is incredibly packed with fat, juicy, ripe and over ripe honeyed apricots, vanilla custard, pineapple, honey and candied citrus. Great balance between concentration, sweetness and blazing acidity with the ability to age and evolve for decades! 94 - 96 Pts 4,332 Views Tasted May 3, 2016 |
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2014
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
This is really rocking! The levels of acidity give this all the lift you need, so that the sweet, honey drenched, tropical fruit and vanilla can really shine. 2,986 Views Tasted Feb 4, 2017 |
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2013
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Rich, sweet honey coated tropical fruits, vanilla bean, nuts and flowers open the wine. The sweet and spicy element that comes on top of the fruit makes the naturally honeyed tropical fruits really come alive. 3,115 Views Tasted Feb 1, 2016Fat, juicy and packed with honeyed apricot, pineapple, vanilla bean and candied oranges, this lush treat is perfectly balanced by sweet honeyed fruit and refreshing acidity. 93-95 Pts 3,253 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2014 |
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2011
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Filled with spicy, candied orange, nuts, honey, pineapple, apricot and vanilla, the wine lacks a bit of the intensity found in the top wines of the vintage. Yet, it still delivers a tasty, sweet, tropical, orange, honeyed finish with good freshness. 3,961 Views Tasted Feb 12, 2014 |
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2010
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
A decade in the bottle has added a lot here. This fabulous sweet wine hit it right out of the bottle. Flowers, dried apricot, vanilla bean, roasted cashews, and honey-coated pineapple with candied pear notes are all over the nose and palate. The balance between sweet and acidity is right on target. This is a beauty! Drink from 2022-2050. 3,482 Views Tasted Nov 28, 2022I know it's young, but I really enjoy the freshness and super sweetness found in young Sauternes. More on the orange, tangerine and apricot side of the style range, instead of tropical fruits, there is enough honeyed sweetness, acidity and vanilla notes, along with good concentration of flavor to keep you busy. 4,396 Views Tasted Aug 26, 2015 |
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2009
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Honey coated apricot, pineapple,. peach and orange notes create the aromatics. Medium/full bodied, the wine ends with orange rind, apricot and sweet honeyed pineapple. 6,960 Views Tasted Jan 25, 2012 |
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2008
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
A decade of additional aging has created a sweet, beauty. Rich, lush, and a touch spicy, you also enjoy a wealth of candied orange rind, apricots, vanilla bean, roasted nuts, and overripe pineapples coated with honey in every sniff and sip. This is a rich style, but it comes along with ample acidity so the wine always feels lifted and never cloying. Drink from 2023-2040. 3,678 Views Tasted Dec 25, 2022Medium/full bodied, lacking the same level of depth and concentration found in 2007 or 2009. However, there is a lot to like about the wine with its vanilla, apricot, orange marmelade, honeysuckle and pineapple filled personality. Sweet, soft, luscious and forward, this is already delivering pleasure. 5,159 Views Tasted Dec 13, 2013 |
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2007
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
A beautiful nose filled with flowers and spicy, honey coated orange, apricot, peach and pineapple gets you excited. This rich, concentrated wine ends with a long sensation of warm nuts, honey and sweet, ripe, tropical fruit. 6,425 Views Tasted Jan 1, 2013 |
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2006
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
On the orange side of the style range, with plenty of honeyed, tangerine, apricot, nectarine, pineapple and honeysuckle. Medium/full bodied, with freshness and lift, but lacking more of the yellow fruit I find in the best years. 4,436 Views Tasted Jan 3, 2017 |
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2005
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Absolutely delicious with layers of sweet, ripe, pineapple, apricot, peach, peach and honey flavors. Rich, sweet, fleshy and fresh, drink it now, drink it in a decade. This is a great value for Sauternes. 9,671 Views Tasted Jul 22, 2013 |
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2003
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Brimming with pineapple, apricot, vanilla, white peach and candied orange, all coated in honey, the wine is sweet, round, lush and offering a lot of charm today. 4,462 Views Tasted May 29, 2013 |
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2002
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Fully developed, medium-bodied, fresh, vibrant, and focused on its core of dried apricots, marmalade, buttery orange rind spice, and butterscotch. While not deep, the wine remained fresh, vibrant, and aromatic, with a butterscotch and candied orange edge to the finish. Drink from 2022-2032. 3,286 Views Tasted Nov 25, 2022 |
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2001
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Spicy, floral, orange rind, apricot, nectarine, honey and nut aromas pair perfectly with the rich, sweet, ripe sensations of honey coated, tropical fruit. Sweet, sexy, fresh and fun to drink now, this offers good value for 2001 Sauternes. 7,378 Views Tasted May 18, 2012 |
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1990
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
At the end of its best days, or perhaps slightly past that point, the wine shows more caramel, butterscotch, orange and burn toffee notes than, sweet, yellow, honeyed fruit. On the bright orange side in the finish, if you are sitting on bottles, I'd drink them up, before more of the sweet fruit slowly fades away. 5,909 Views Tasted Jul 15, 2016 |
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1983
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Surprisingly strong, the concentrated, sweet, ripe and overripe, juicy pineapple, apricot, orange marmalade and assorted tropical fruits offer that majestic blend of acidity and honeyed, caramel sweetness. 4,165 Views Tasted Dec 25, 2017 |
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1959
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
With a beautiful, honey orange, colored hue. Apricot, spice, vanilla, caramel, pineapple and coconut aromatics. Sexy and suave. Good concentration with a richness in the finish. 5,089 Views Tasted Jun 21, 2007 |
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1937
Château Guiraud (Sauternes)
Dark, molasses in color, this is all about the secondary notes of caramel, butterscotch, brown sugar, creme brulee and honeyed, vanilla and orange peel. You definitely note the age, but in a good way as there is still some sweetness and honeyed fruits, along with acidity to keep this interesting. 1,619 Views Tasted Apr 22, 2017 |
