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Sweet sweet
The wine has brilliant pale golden color. There are a little alcoholicity aroma with clear honey tones, notes of flowers, almond nuances and distant sea. Wine with medium body and fine tannins. Taste - quite harmonious, with exciting, spicy finale that very clearly expresses the terroir characteristics. Strong, long, impressive finish filled with tones of marmalade and white pepper.
Serve at 8-10 °C with foie gras, desserts, ice cream.
The 2009 de Fargues seems to have gone into its shell since I last tasted it. It opens gradually with subtle notes of dried honey, lanolin, just a touch of chlorophyll and stem ginger. The palate is gorgeous: super fine tannins here, wonderful minerality and tension with a sense of everything being in its right place. It is not a powerful de Fargues – in fact, this is understated for the vintage. However, it will have great complexity and is worth cellaring for a couple of decades.
Pear pie and blanched almond on the nose. Full-bodied and medium sweet, with a subtle spice, honey and sliced apple character. Like sorbet.
Wonderful ultra-rich and caramelised aromas and texture, almost reminiscent here of the 2003 style, noble, very long, sugar being balanced by a nice and fruity acidity, impressive, as usual
Pale to medium gold in color, the 2009 de Fargues drifts effortlessly out of the glass with gorgeous honeysuckle, candied ginger, tropical fruit preserves and musk perfume scents followed by nuances of beeswax, chamomile tea and quince paste. Full-bodied, seductively rich and super sweet, the hedonistic layers are beautifully offset by wonderful freshness, finishing long and very layered. It possesses mature notions and yet still has bags of vibrant fruit, so loads of time ahead for this stunner. Drink now to 2045.
Château de Fargues is one of the oldest and most noble estates in the Sauternes region, with a history dating back to the 13th century. However, its true rise began in the 18th century, when the Lur-Saluces family, through marriage, took control of both Château d’Yquem and Château de Fargues, becoming inseparable from the identity and prestige of Sauternes.
It was this family that established the legendary practice of noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) — an extremely selective, entirely hand-harvested process that allows the creation of sweet wines with extraordinary aromatic complexity, concentration, and vibrant acidity. This approach later became the quality benchmark for the entire region.
For more than three decades, Alexandre de Lur-Saluces, long-time head of Château d’Yquem, strengthened the family’s global reputation. After the sale of Yquem to the LVMH Group, the family retained Château de Fargues, which today is led by Philippe de Lur-Saluces, the sixteenth generation of the family.
The philosophy of Château de Fargues remains unchanged:
Today, Château de Fargues produces some of the most elegant Sauternes wines, known for their purity, vibrant acidity, and exceptional aging potential. These wines prove that Sauternes is not merely a dessert wine style, but a complex, gastronomic expression, capable of pairing beautifully with seafood, savory dishes, and refined cuisine.
