1967 Château Guiraud

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 93.1 points

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  11/7/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 93 Points

  A beautiful, mature, classic Guiraud. A mix of tropical and citrus on the nose, slightly creme brulee crust sweetness, slightly spicy. Maybe not the most impactful sweet ever, but a wonderful, classic, mature Sauternes experience.

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  10/21/2022 - PDavisMarble wrote: 94 Points

  Orange. A generous nose with apple and orange blossoms, ginger and cinnamon, nutmeg and a hint of pineapple. The palate echoed the nose. This was beautiful. A wonderful finish to the evening.

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  7/19/2021 - Cailles wrote: 91 Points

  15 Mature Bordeauxs Magnums (with Heitz MV in the mix): The tasting was concluded with three sweet wines. All from magnum. Winner was the La Tour Blanche 1945 (95 pts) which showed wonderfully mature with a beautiful fruit sweetness, balanced by a superb freshness and lots of tertiary development. Quite similar with a bottle of Yquem 1948 (98 pts) we had the day before with a little bit less of everything. The Guiraud 1967 (91 pts) was fresh, complex and balanced but didn’t had a desired level of purity with a lot of chemical notes showing. Tasted blind, the rare Gantenbein Vin de Paille 1997 (92 pts), showed very layered, sweet, balanced by a very good freshness but showed port-like ripeness and aroma profile which I just don’t like.
  
  TN: Very ripe profile on the nose and palate with lots of apricots and a bit of citrus as well as some spices. It seems quite a bit younger with a high freshness. Instead of a nice saffron-like boytritis, this shows a lot of chemical and hard liquor notes as well as some wet cardboard scents you can often find in (not so well-made) Sauternes. Many might like that, but I don’t.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted. I guess this could have used a lot of air.

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  7/7/2021 - andtheodor wrote: 94 Points

  Coconut sugar, marshmallow, dried apricot nose. Palate feels concentrated by age; it's dense and surprisingly still quite sweet with a powdered sugar type of succulence over orange peel. Often these old copper colored Sauternes are more bitter and weird, but this comes off as a reduced version of a younger Guiraud. Really Marvelous.

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  7/6/2021 - blanquito wrote: 95 Points

  Mature wine on a cool, rainy night in Denver: We finished with a fantastic 1967 Guiraud. really stunning. Super rich at first laden with treacle and creme brûlée, but showing a fresher saline-oyster shell-saffron profile with air. Sweet without being heavy. Maybe not the last word in complexity, but so wonderfully balanced and completed.

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