Dessert · Sauternes · Francia
Château Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes
Scored from 3,362 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Dessert · Francia (15 wines).
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Is Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes a good wine?
What reviewers say
“Sémillon(85%), Sauvignon Blanc (10%) e Muscadelle (5%). Fermentação lenta e maturação em barricas de carvalho francês por 18 meses. Garrafa de 500 ml, botrytis. Dourado profundo.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Bouquet of white flowers, acacia and honeysuckle. On the palate, the sweetness is present from the start with notes of honey; the wine then confirms a balanced, harmonious structure and the moderately long finish ends with a pleasant, fairly lively expression.
From Sauternes in France, Château Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes is a dessert wine. It sits in the $30–60 band, on a lowest observed 750 ml price of $34.99. It blends Sauvignon Blanc and Semillion.
3,362 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 3,418 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against 14 other dessert wines from France, not against the corpus as a whole.
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- Dessert · Francia · 15 wines
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Cohort: Dessert · Francia
