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From Château d’Yquem: “A very warm spring, marked by a late frost on the 2nd of May (-2°) that damaged the top of the branches, but miraculously spared the flower clusters. This was followed by a summer that was far more hot and dry than average. This weather lasted until autumn. There were only 13 mm of precipitation between August and October. Picking entailed 5 passes and 6 solid weeks of work interrupted only by a day off on Sunday. The grapes came in with perfect sugar levels (over 22° potential alcohol) and great acidity. A vintage that epitomises complexity.”
Château d’Yquem 1945 was the vintage produced at the end of World War II. It has the highest residual sugar of any Yquem produced at 164 g / L.
Château d’Yquem is arguably the world’s best dessert wine, certainly one of the world’s most famous. Chateau d’Yquem is bottled as a Sauternes 1er Cru Superieur the only sweet Bordeaux wine in this top category. The wine is made in the French appellation of Sauternes in Bordeaux. Sauternes is located within the Graves sub-region of Bordeaux on the left bank of the Garonne River.
Château d’Yquem has a long history; there are records of vines grown at the Château since 1711. The most recent owners, the Lur-Saluces family first entered the estate in 1785 when Françoise-Joséphine de Sauvage d’Yquem married Count Louis-Amédée de Lur-Saluces.
The estate remained in the Lur-Saluces family, albeit with various familial wranglings and declining sales in the 1970s et al., until 1996 when French luxury goods giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton bought 55% of Château d’Yquem from the family of the Comte Alexandre de Lur-Saluces. The Comte remained in charge until 2004 when he retired and, since then, Pierre Lurton.
Château d’Yquem has 126 hectares of vineyards in the Sauternes appellation with plantings of 80% Sémillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc. The hand harvest is very carefully planned. Every vintage, the harvest takes around 6 passes through the vineyard to ensure that only grapes infected with noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) are selected. Yields are low at about 9 hectolitres per hectare compared to the norm of 12 to 20 in Sauternes.
Please inspect the images of Château d’Yquem 1945 carefully.
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