Château Rieussec Sauternes 1855 1er Cru 2019

Expertly constructed, with luxuriously intense pineapple, mango and apricot pit flavours matched step for step by bitter orange peel, lime juice and tingling grated ginger. Sauternes doesn’t always manage to deliver such a mouth-watering mix of satin texture set against pinpoint acidity, but the late harvest 2019 – botrytis arrived when the nights were cool – made for some exceptionally successful wines in the appellation, even if yields were tiny. This is a delicious Rieussec, full of personality, and its 120g/l residual sugar leaves its trace in texture rather than in weight. First year of organic certification.