Wine Tasting Videos Wine Tasting 20: 2003 Ch De Myrat from Sauternes/Barsac France - 02:57
This famous region of Bordeaux specialises making dessert wines from Botrytis white grapes of semillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle. Botrytis Cinerea is a fungus that attacks and dehydrates the grapes thus naturally leaving the grapes concentrating on their sugar level. Botrytis doesn't just develop every year with ease but needs the right conditions from mother nature. Recent excellent vintages in Bordeaux are 2001 and 2003. The de Myrat is a second growth from the 1855 classification. The color of the wine is yellow / yellow straw. On the nose, profound honey and candied lemon fruit/ citrus oil came out. This syrupy, oily bodied wine offers more candied lemon, candied pear, candied pineapple, subtle smoke and spice. The finish is long with sweetened bitter lemon rind and great Botrytis characters. The balanced acidity, sugar, concentration and alcohol ensures it's ageability. I look forward retasting this wine with you in 5 and 10 years time to see how it develops. (90-92 points by Michael Lam of the Beverage Review).
Just an extra note: when tasting dessert wine. One, primarily, is looking for balance between acidity and sweetness but the most important thing is looking for COMPLEXITY. Winemakers can manipulate and adjust acidity and sweetness but they cannot create natural complexity which comes from the grape. Complexity also develops as the wine ages...the fruit level drops as well as loosing some sweetness but other dimensions like coffee and even subtle spices emerges with a change to a darker colour. You gain some and you loose some! .
Wine Tasting Videos - 2003 Ch De Myrat from Sauternes/Barsac France - 02:57
