AOC Sauternes
Bordeaux 2016
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| Wine | Year | AOC- Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée (AOC)
- AOC stands for “Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée”. It tells you where the wine comes from, its origin. It also tells you that the wine is made according to the criteria of this AOC.
| Class.  - Classification (Class.)
- Most of these wines belong to one of the Bordeaux classifications:
- 1st-5th GCC - The famous 1855 Médoc Grand Cru Classé Classification (61 wines). The list starts with the top 5 of 1st Classed Growths.
- 1st GCC a & b and GCC - The St-Emilion Premier Grand Crus (class a and class b) and the Grand Cru Classés.
- CB - The Médoc Cru Bourgeois Classification (1932). Last renewed in 2003 (with at the top the 9 Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel followed by the Cru Bourgeois Supérieur classed wines, this 2003 classification is used for the overviews 2004 - 2006). In February 2007 the classification was annuled by the Bordeaux Administrative Appeals Court, and in November 2007 it was decided that the classification would be continued but without the sub-classes at the top.
- CC Grav. - All Graves wines classified (1959) as Cru Classé de Graves are located in the Pessac-Léognan region (as individual AOC established in 1987).
| Size- Size in hectares (Size)
- This column tells you what the size is of the property in hectares (ha). Note that seldomly all land is used to make the first wine of the estate. Most châteaux also make a second and even a third wine on the estate.
| NM- Neal Martin (NM)
- English wine critic, formerly contributing to Wine-Journal on erobertparker.com, and since the 2017 vintage to Vinous. He rates the wines on a scale from 75 to 100. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| JR- Jancis Robinson (JR)
- English wine critic publishing on her website JancisRobinson.com, wines are also often rated by team members like Julia Harding MW and James Lawther MW. Wines are rated on a scale from 10 to 20. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| TA- Tim Atkin (TA)
- English wine critic publishing on his website TimAtkin.com. Wines are rated on a scale from 75 to 100. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| JS- James Suckling (JS)
- American wine critic James Suckling published in the American magazine Wine Spectator up to and including the Bordeaux 2009 vintage. From Bordeaux 2010 vintage he publishes on his own new website JamesSuckling.com. Wines are rated on a scale from 75 to 100. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| JL- Jeff Leve (JL)
- American wine critic publishing on his website TheWineCellarInsider.com. Wines are rated on a scale from 75 to 100. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| RVF- La Revue du Vin de France (RVF)
- French wine magazine. Wines are rated on a scale from 10 to 20. The wines are tasted by Olivier Poels, Hélène Durand and Philippe Maurange. Instead of a single number, always a range is given with a 1 point span. Presented here is the mean. E.g. 16,5-17,5 becomes 17. In the exceptional case where the span is just 0,5 point, the average ending in .25 or .75 is presented. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| PW- Perswijn (PW)
- Dutch wine magazine. Wines are tasted by Ronald de Groot and are given 1 to 5 stars. Not all wines are (already) rated.
| Price- Consumer price in euro (Price)
- The price shown is the average initial consumer "en primeur" price with tax included. Use it as a guideline, as an indication to assess the prices that you encounter.
| +/–- Price change percentage (+/–)
- This column compares the initial consumer price of the displayed year with the consumer price of the preceding year. If both consumer prices are known, a percentage is shown for the price increase (+) or price drop (–).
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| d'Yquem | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCCs | 113 | · | 95-97 | 18.5+ | 96 | · | · | 98-99 | 96-98 | · | 19.5 | · | 4½ | · | · | · |
| Climens | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 29 | · | 95-97 | 18+ | · | · | · | · | · | · | 18.5 | · | · | · | € 69 | 0% |
| Clos Haut-Peyraguey | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 12 | · | 92-94 | 17 | 94 | · | · | 94-95 | 91-93 | · | 18.25 | · | 3+ | · | € 35 | 0% |
| Coutet | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 38 | · | 91-93 | 16.5+ | 95 | · | · | 94-95 | 92-94 | · | 19.25 | · | 3½ | · | € 39 | 0% |
| Guiraud | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 100 | · | 93-95 | 17+ | 93 | · | · | 94-95 | 92-94 | · | 18.75 | · | 3½ | · | € 44 | 0% |
| Lafaurie-Peyraguey | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 41 | · | 94-96 | 17.5 | 93 | · | · | 98-99 | 93-95 | · | 18.5 | · | 3½ | · | € 51 | 0% |
| Rabaud-Promis | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 31 | · | 91-93 | 17+ | 95 | · | · | 91-92 | · | · | 17.75 | · | · | · | · | · |
| de Rayne-Vigneau | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 79 | · | 93-95 | 17.5 | 93 | · | · | 92-93 | · | · | 18.25 | · | 4 | · | € 45 | 0% |
| Rieussec | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 90 | · | 92-94 | 16.5+ | 96 | · | · | 98-99 | · | · | 17.5 | · | · | · | € 60 | 0% |
| Sigalas-Rabaud | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 14 | · | 92-94 | 16.5+ | 94 | · | · | 91-92 | · | · | 18.5 | · | 4 | · | € 40 | 0% |
| Suduiraut | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 92 | · | 94-96 | 18+ | 95 | · | · | 95-96 | 93-95 | · | 18.25 | · | 4½ | · | € 65 | 0% |
| la Tour-Blanche | 2016 | Sauternes | 1st GCC | 65 | · | 94-96 | 17 | 96 | · | · | 93-94 | 91-93 | · | 18.25 | · | 4 | · | € 40 | 0% |
| d'Arche | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 40 | · | 91-93 | 16 | 89 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Broustet | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 39.5 | · | 86-88 | 16 | 92 | · | · | 91-92 | · | · | 16.25 | · | 3+ | · | € 24 | 0% |
| Caillou | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 13 | · | 87-89 | 16 | 93 | · | · | 90-91 | · | · | 17.75 | · | · | · | € 29 | · |
| Doisy-Daëne | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 15.9 | · | 95-97 | 17 | 95 | · | · | 94-95 | 92-94 | · | 18.25 | · | 3½ | · | € 39 | 0% |
| Doisy-Védrines | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 30 | · | · | 16.5 | 92 | · | · | 91-92 | · | · | 18 | · | 3½ | · | € 35 | 0% |
| Filhot | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 62 | · | 88-90 | 15.5 | 91 | · | · | 88-89 | · | · | · | · | · | · | € 23 | 0% |
| Lamothe (Despujols) | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 7.5 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Lamothe Guignard | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 17 | · | 84-86 | 16.5 | 92 | · | · | · | · | · | 17.25 | · | · | · | € 22 | 0% |
| de Malle | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 28 | · | · | 17 | 93 | · | · | 90-91 | · | · | 17.5 | · | 3½ | · | € 35 | 0% |
| de Myrat | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 22 | · | 92-94 | 16.5+ | 91 | · | · | 93-94 | 90-92 | · | 17.5 | · | 3+ | · | € 28 | 0% |
| Nairac | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 17 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | € 45 | +2% |
| Romer du Hayot | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 15 | · | · | 16+ | 87 | · | · | 92-93 | · | · | 16.25 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Suau | 2016 | Sauternes | 2nd GCC | 8.1 | · | 90-92 | 16 | 93 | · | · | 87-88 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Bastor-Lamontagne | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 56 | · | 87-89 | 15.5 | 91 | · | · | 89-90 | 89-91 | · | · | · | 3 | · | € 23 | 0% |
| l'Extravagant de Doisy-Daëne (demi) | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 15.9 | · | 96-98 | 18 | 96 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | € 194 | 0% |
| de Fargues | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 25 | · | 95-97 | 17 | 96 | · | · | · | 93-95 | · | 18.75 | · | 4½ | · | · | · |
| les Justices | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 8.5 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 17.25 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Raymond Lafon | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 16 | · | 90-92 | · | · | · | · | · | 91-93 | · | 18 | · | 4 | · | € 39 | 0% |
| Romer | 2016 | Sauternes | · | 6.5 | · | · | 16.5+ | 82 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
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