1980 Chateau de Fargues Sauternes

The home property of the Lur-Saluces family, formerly owners of Château d'Yquem, Fargues produces extraordinarily unctuous, honeyed wines from tiny vine yields. As exotic as this wine can be, it has a long history of aging for decades in bottle. Fargues slipped under the cracks during the classification of 1855, which occured during a period when the estate was serving primarily agricultural purposes, with limited cultivation of red varietals. Dedicated sweet wine production began to occur in earnest in the 1930s, but this doesn't mean the estate has little history: the foundations for the chateau were laid in 1306.

The home property of the Lur-Saluces family, formerly owners of Château d'Yquem, Fargues produces extraordinarily unctuous, honeyed wines from tiny vine yields. As exotic as this wine can be, it has a long history of aging for decades in bottle. Fargues slipped under the cracks du... more