I dropped in on Clos Haut Peyraguey to talk about the 2010 Sauternes harvest and get a first taste of some of the Sauternes lots with Martine Langlais-Pauly and Anthony Defives, owner and winemaker at Clos Haut-Peyraguey.
What shows through for me is the extreme patience shown by Peyraguey from the first picking through to the last, which were seperated by over a month. Both first and last pickings yielded just a single barrel of Sauternes!
It was a long harvest and Martine had to be extrememly reactive to get pickers in when the botrytis got to optimum stage.
Interestingly, the 2006 Sauternes was the last drawn out harvest, but for a very different reason. Then they had a lot of bad stuff that needed weeding out to allow the good to come through (it turned out to be a good vintage in the end). Whereas in 2010 each bunch arrived at roasted botrytis stage at different times so the harvest went on and on and on....
Tasting from the barrel - with fermentation stage only just finished, Martine describes all the different Sauternes pickings as "very beautiful". Watch the video below to find out what characteristic are already starting to show through in the 2010 Sauternes wine.
For more wine videos about the 2010 Sauternes Harvest from Bordeaux expert Bill blatch, visit his Bordeaux Gold Blog.
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