2000 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes 750ml

Name: 2000 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes 750ml
Brand: Chateau dYquem
SKU: YQUEM2000
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Sauternes perfection — the world's greatest dessert wine at its most concentrated and precise in a generation.

Château d’Yquem 2000 Sauternes 750ml premium Bordeaux dessert wine

2000 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes 750ml

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Sauternes perfection — the world's greatest dessert wine at its most concentrated and precise in a generation.

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The World’s Most Famous Dessert Wine
World's Only Premier Cru Supérieur Sauternes Since 1855
"Luxuriously Concentrated Apricot and Marmalade Flavors" ~ 96 Decanter
Legendary Yquem Pedigree — Aging Potential of 50+ Years
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2000 Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes 750ml

$1,105

$850

/ bottle

You save $255

About The Wine

There is only one Sauternes that stands in a category entirely its own. In the historic 1855 classification of Bordeaux, Château d'Yquem was the sole estate awarded Premier Cru Supérieur — a designation above all other First Growths — a recognition that has gone unchallenged for 170 years.

The secret is the estate's hilltop position in Sauternes, where morning mists from the Ciron and Garonne rivers roll across the vines each autumn, creating the precise conditions for Botrytis cinerea — noble rot — to concentrate the grapes to an almost supernatural degree. Up to 200 hand-pickers make multiple passes through the vineyard over weeks, selecting only berries where the rot has fully worked its magic. The result: roughly one glass of wine per vine per year.

2000 vintage is a study in rarity and resilience. Relentless October rains devastated the crop, limiting production to just 25,000 bottles — a fraction of the estate's typical output. What survived the harvest is a wine of crystalline precision and unmistakable Yquem character: concentrated through noble rot, fermented in new oak barrels, and built to outlast generations. With 128 grams per liter of residual sugar balanced by vibrant acidity, it is rich without heaviness, sweet without cloy.

Now owned by LVMH and stewarded with the same obsessive quality standards established over four centuries, d'Yquem remains the definitive benchmark of Sauternes.

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At A Glance

Varietal:: Sauvignon Blanc
Varietal:: Semillon
Region:: Bordeaux
Sub-Appellation:: Sauternes
Alcohol:: 14.0%
Size:: 750ml

TASTING NOTES

What's in the Glass

PAIRS WITH: Dessert · Cake · Cheese

Mouthfeel & Acidity

Light Body Full Body

Low Acidity High Acidity

Soft Tannins Firm Tannins

Dry Sweet

80% Sémillon, 20% Sauvignon Blanc with 128 g/l residual sugar.

Pale to medium gold-amber in the glass, with an aromatic profile of dried orange peel, tangerine, Mirabelle plum, yellow flowers, and a signature waft of saffron.

The palate opens with marmalade and lemon tea, both sweet and surprisingly savory, with beautifully balanced acidity threading through.

The finish lingers on citrus peel with a bright, clean lift — a testament to Yquem's structural precision even in challenging vintages. Decant generously before serving.

CRITIC REVIEWS

What the Critics Said

Things were more difficult in Sauternes than in the rest of Bordeaux in the 2000 vintage, with a brilliant first picking in early October that showed all the promise of the vintage, but with the later crop ruined by heavy rain. In the end Yquem made 20% of its usual yield, but the success of the earlier growing season comes through with luxuriously concentrated apricot and marmalade flavours, laced with bitter orange, lime zest, butterscotch, saffron and white truffles. 128g/l of residual sugar, with total acidity of 4.5. The team behind this wine included current winemaking director Sandrine Garbay, who had begun two years earlier in 1998, with the château already partly owned by Bernard Arnault of LVMH (he bought his first shares in 1996) but still headed up by director Alexandre de Lur Saluces, whose family had been at Yquem since 1875. ~ 96 Decanter

~ 95 The Wine Independent
~ 95 The Wine Palate
Forward and flattering, with unctuous marmalade, blood orange, apricot chutney and ginger notes. Juicy and engaging, but without the finely beaded acidity to stretch out fully. Drink now through 2035. ~ 92 Wine Spectator
Medium yellow gold. Highly exotic bouquet on the nose, intense woody spice, very complex aromas still characterized by the wood, pineapple, pepper, cardamom. Very powerful on the palate, fine lanolin, rich in finesse, still very young. Needs a few more years to reveal its full aromatic palette. ~ 92 Falstaff
A rich Yquem, with coffee, dried orange skin, and dried apples. Full and sweet, with a round body and very yummy. A touch of bitterness on the palate. 128 grams of RS. ~ 91 James Suckling
Served from an ex-chateau bottle. The millennial 2000 Chateau d’Yquem is a valiant effort in one of the most challenging Sauternes vintages in recent memory. The 2000 is quite deep in color. The nose is crisp and well-defined but not the most complex, as you would expect from a truly challenging growing season in Sauternes. It is pleasant in its own way with delicate scents of tangerine, yellow flowers and Mirabelle. The palate is well-balanced with marmalade tinged opening. I like the acidity here, an Yquem with good race, although it does feel a little tapered toward the finish. Drink now-2025. Tasted March 2014. ~ 90 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

THE PRODUCER

Chateau d’Yquem

Located on a hilltop in Sauternes, roughly fifty kilometers southeast of Bordeaux, Château d’Yquem is a place where history, landscape and discipline converge.

The estate has been shaped over more than four centuries, its vineyards spread across approximately 100 hectares — a rare scale for Sauternes, and a crucial element in Yquem’s ability to craft balance in challenging vintages.

At the heart of Yquem’s identity lies botrytis cinerea, the noble rot that concentrates sugars, acids and aromas. Yet at Yquem, botrytis is never rushed. Harvests unfold through multiple passes, sometimes stretching over weeks, as each parcel and even individual bunches are picked only when they reach the desired balance.

This selective approach explains not only the wine’s consistency, but also why certain vintages are simply not produced if conditions fail to align.