A semi-sweet Graves

Now Graves is famous for white Bordeaux, but usually the dry variety. Well Graves Superieures is an AC for sweet wines and this is a semi-sweet version made of 60% Semillon and 40% Muscadelle. That is the highest proportion of Muscadelle I have tasted in any blends (Ozzie Liqueur Tokay doesn't count as it is a varietal!) This is a wine made from clean (ie not botryitis affected) fruit. Actually Sauternes, Barsac and Cerons are all within the Graves sub-region, but Graves Superieures is a much simpler wine than the first two and a notch below even the third. This wine was a nice golden tea, with a sweet acid nose enlivened with a piquant note. The palate was semi-sweet and slightly fruity, well supported by an acid backbone. The vendor has another trick with the wine, by making a wine cocktail with grapefruit juice, but I think that it could be good enough on its own as an accompaniment to a meal with hidden sweetness (Chinese perhaps?!)