Sauternes · In the cellar
Château d’Yquem
1894 · 1916 · 1947
- Origin
- Sauternes, left bank
- Grape
- Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc
- Vintages held
- 1894 · 1916 · 1947
- Delivery
- Insured and temperature-controlled to Switzerland
Quoted on request. We do not publish prices, and quantities are often one.
The only premier cru supérieur of the 1855 classification, made from botrytised grapes picked berry by berry. Yquem lives for a century or more; the 1894 was bottled when the château still belonged to the Lur-Saluces family.
What the cellar holds
In the cellar: 1894, 1916, 1946, 1947, 1962, 1973, 1983, 1986, 1990 in halves (100 points), 1996 in the original three-bottle case, and every vintage from 2004 to 2010, plus 2023 in bottles and halves.
Vintages in the cellar
Croian & Hein places bottles like this one with a small circle of collectors in Switzerland: discreetly, by appointment, and with the condition of every bottle described plainly before it travels.
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