Château d’Yquem 1916
- Vintage
- 1916
- Origin
- Sauternes, left bank
- Grape
- Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc
- In the cellar
- Not at present
- Sourcing
- Privately, on request
No obligation, and no answer dressed up: if it cannot be found, we say so.
There is no Château d’Yquem 1916 in the cellar at present. Bottles like this change hands privately, a few at a time, and rarely through a list.
Sauternes in 1916.
Made in wartime, by whoever was left to pick. Survival at this age is a property of the bottle, not of the year.
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.
If you are looking for one, write with the format and the condition you would accept. The network that assembled this cellar is sometimes able to find another bottle; if it cannot, you will be told so plainly rather than offered something else. Our note on fill levels explains what to ask about an older bottle before anything is agreed.
Still in the cellar: 1894 · 1946 · 1947 · 1962 · 1973 · 1983 · 1986 · 1996 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · see the wine