Looking Back: 2007 Sauternes
BY NEAL MARTIN |
Each primeur I revisit a vintage in Sauternes to see how the wines are evolving in bottle. Denied the chance to do this in recent years due to the pandemic, upon returning to the ‘golden slopes’ in April this year, I seized the chance to spend a few hours going back to the 2007 vintage. I tasted these wines over two flights.
The Growing Season
The 2007 dry reds might have been met with a lukewarm response upon release, but the Sauternes were received much more positively. Bill Blatch notes that this was not a growing season founded on a hot dry summer; instead, it was a lesson in conducting multiple passes through the vineyard to fashion a tensile sweet wine.
