WSET Advanced

2000 Chateau Broustet Barsac Sauternes

Tasting Notes:

Eyes: clear, deep gold
Nose: clean, med intensity, developing, honey, marmalade, vegetal, rubber, pineapple, dried apricot, spice, botrytis
Mouth: sweet, med bodied, med+ acidity, long length, med+ intensity
All in all: Very good quality; Drink now, but has potential for ageing.

Excuse the partially incomplete tasting notes. I feel like I’m noticing a pattern with this particular instructor on theĀ first day of classes – opening with Champagne, and ending with a dessert wine. Perfect.

I find it hard to rate dessert wines. As evolutionary organisms, we are inclined to love sweet things because they contain carbohydrates. Although that last sentence can be easily given a nod, it can just as easily receive a furrowed brow when you try a sweet wine that is cloying, or having no acidity to balance it out, and you have an unclean sweetness not unlike the sensation of drinking maple syrup.… read more