There were a few "trophy wine" I wanted to taste at the Grant Tasting Pavilion of the Wine and Dine Festival this year, and this is one of them. I had blogged about the disappointment of Mouton 1988, and another is that I could not get to try Pontet-Canet 2010. d'Yquem was a very nice drink, but it did not seem to have been as outstanding as say the 1989 which I had bought a few half-bottles. I had previously written that then 1983 was a nice Sauternes, but as one expects Yquem to be in the stratosphere year in and year out, that was considered a disappointment.
Back to the 1995,the wine was a rich golden orange in colour, with a sweet luscious nose with lots of botrytis character and plentiful dried apricot acidity. The palate continued with the sweet luscious theme as well as the dried apricot fruit and acidity, the latter of which gave sterling support as a nice backbone. Not disappointing in the 83 mold, just somewhat lacking in the WOW factor, even when I managed to have some pan-fried foie gras to accompanied it.
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