
2020 Chateau Filhot
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 37 / 750ml
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3 from 1 User Rating
- 12 Critic Reviews
- Style Dessert - Lush and Balanced
- Grape Variety Bordeaux Blend White
- Food Pairing Blue Cheeses
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Second Growth. Deuxieme Cru Classe in 1855.
Expert tasting note: (2020 vintage) "The wine is a vibrant medium yellow in color. Hightomed perfumes on the nose hint at lillies, honeysuckle and barley-sugar. The palate is sweet with honeyed fruit & a syrupy texture. The mid-palate is complexed by notes of honeysuckle perfume. The acidity ensures an attractive vitality & the finish is long & clean with floral perfume. The wine ends with an attractive balance, it is not cloying." - 11/24 DCAMW
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Highlights
Details
- Classification
- 2eme Grand Cru Classé
- Drinking Window
- 2022 - 2044
- Alcohol ABV
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13.5%
- Sweetness
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Sweet
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Oak Type
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French
- Management
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Henri de Vaucelles
- Total Production Volume
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22 000 bouteilles
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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Vineyard position : South of the village of Sauternes on south-west facing slopes
- Harvest Notes
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Harvesting : By hand with successive passages through the vines
- Winemaking
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Fermentations : In 50 hectolitre temperature-controlled stainless steel vats Temperature of fermentation : Between 19 and 21 degrés C Length of fermentation : From 10 to 30 days depending to the grape variety and the concentration Blending : Approximately 14 months after fermentation
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- Ageing
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Maturing : 2 years in barrel and vats Barrels : Oak from the Allier forest of central France, 1/3 new barrels yearly Bottling : 20 to 24 months after fermentation
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Wine-Searcher Review & Tasting Notes
Awards
(2)Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Duck liver crème brulée Starter Course
- Contains: cream
- Western
- Apple strudel Dessert Course
- Contains: filo pastry
- Austrian
- Fruit mousse Dessert Course
- Contains: sugar
- Western
- Roquefort Cheese Course
- With endive salad
- French
Details
- Classification
- 2eme Grand Cru Classé
- Drinking Window
- 2022 - 2044
- Alcohol ABV
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13.5%
- Sweetness
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Sweet
- Maturation
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Oaked
- Oak Type
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French
- Management
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Henri de Vaucelles
- Total Production Volume
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22 000 bouteilles
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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Vineyard position : South of the village of Sauternes on south-west facing slopes
- Harvest Notes
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Harvesting : By hand with successive passages through the vines
- Winemaking
-
Fermentations : In 50 hectolitre temperature-controlled stainless steel vats Temperature of fermentation : Between 19 and 21 degrés C Length of fermentation : From 10 to 30 days depending to the grape variety and the concentration Blending : Approximately 14 months after fermentation
Read more
- Ageing
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Maturing : 2 years in barrel and vats Barrels : Oak from the Allier forest of central France, 1/3 new barrels yearly Bottling : 20 to 24 months after fermentation
Read more
Awards
(2)Critics Scores & Reviews
(12)User Ratings
(1)Compare vintages
Vintage quality: Good
Current condition: Keep
For Sauternes, it is still early days to make a fully accurate assessment of the 2020 vintage – although reports are increasingly positive.
The growing season began with a mild but relatively wet spring, which saw both an early budburst and flowering. The weather than settled in...
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