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Wine · White Bordeaux
Vin blanc sec de Rieussec
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The tasting card
- Sweetness
- Dry, as the bottle's label says
From the label
Read off the bottle in our own photograph.
- Vintage on the label
- 2022
- Alcohol
- 12.5%
- Size on the label
- 750 ml
From the tech sheet
Printed for the 2022 vintage by the producer (lafite.vin.co). A figure the sheet repeats word for word from another year is left out.
- Total acidity
- 3.35 g/L
- pH
- 2.95
- Grapes
- Sauvignon blanc 55%, Sémillon 45%
Tasting note
thyme, lemon, kaffir lime, lime; slightly smoky and vanilla; fresh vegetal; lively and fresh; very mineral and chalky; slightly toasty; saline finish; grapefruit bitterness
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2022 vintage, in the sheet's own words, shortened.
Winemaking
From the producer's tech sheet for the 2022 vintage. Only what the sheet prints, translated word for word into English.
- Aged for
- six months (barrel-vinified portion)
- Aged in
- stainless steel tanks (50%) and barrels (50%); the wine vinified in barrels is aged on lees with regular lees stirring
- Made
- Sémillon: a large part of the musts vinified in new oak barrels and barrels used for one previous wine; Sauvignon: musts mainly vinified in stainless steel tanks at low temperature and to a lesser extent in barrels used for one previous wine
- Blend
- Sauvignon blanc 55%, Sémillon 45%
About this bottle
Full notes are coming soon. We only publish what we can confirm from the producer or the bottle itself, so this page grows as we check it. Ask us in the shop, or ask Chaz, our AI sommelier, at the bottom of the page.