TN: Chateau Filhot 2010 (Sauternes)

[Waiters Friend]

Colour: Golden
Nose: Orange peel, a touch of apricot, ginger marmalade.
Palate: Intense sweetness, but not cloying, medium/high acid leading to a clean finish.

The wine shows great balance and should get better over the next couple of decades. Most enjoyable.

[rooman]

Sadly, a vastly under appreciated wine style. For some reason very few people seem to collect Sauternes and yet everyone loves them when they are brought along to offlines. This wine seems to just be beginning it journey on the path to enlightment

[Mahmoud Ali]

Sadly, a vastly under appreciated wine style. For some reason very few people seem to collect Sauternes and yet everyone loves them when they are brought along to offlines. This wine seems to just be beginning it journey on the path to enlightment

Very true, and I guess I'm partly guilty of that but to be honest the price of sauterne has increased to the point that it far less of value proposition than so many other dessert wines. The few sauternes that I have date back to when they were more affordable. Since then, my dessert wine portfolio has grown but with port, madeira, and sherries.

Mahmoud.

[Ian S]

The 2010 is apparently in some of the UK Lidl stores at GBP13 (full bottle), which seems like a screaming bargain. Not sure why/how they got it to sell at that price, but I reckon there will be some happy punters buying it.

[rooman]

The 2010 is apparently in some of the UK Lidl stores at GBP13 (full bottle), which seems like a screaming bargain. Not sure why/how they got it to sell at that price, but I reckon there will be some happy punters buying it.

At that price I would put away a case. that is crazy pricing.

[Mark Carrington]

Filhot is consistently inconsistent. The last really good one I tried was 1990; 2001 wasn’t bad. At the price, I shall endeavour to track down the ‘10.