Sauternes Glass: The Best Glass for Sauternes Dessert Wine

June 17,2024

Sauternes glasses are explicitly designed for Sauternes wines. They are taller and narrower than other wine glasses and have a slightly flared rim. This allows the wine to breathe and releases its aromas.

Wine Advocate Review Rated 100 Pale to medium gold colored, the 2009 d'Yquem bursts from the glass with gregarious crème caramel, allspice, dried apricots, mandarin peel and pineapple upside down cake scents plus a fragrant undercurrent of fungi, acacia honey, candied ginger, musk perfume and frangipani. Full-bodied and full-on hedonic in the mouth, the rich, tightly wound layers are still amazingly youthful with bags of citrus sparks and an incredibly long, perfumed finish.