Château Rieussec Carmes de Rieussec Sauternes
- Dessert
- France
- Sauternes
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Sémillon
- Muscadelle
- Tracked vintages
- 21
- Community notes
- 500
- Merchant offers
- 150
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 82/ 100500 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 238 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux Sauternes.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity4.3 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness4.9 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · honey, ginger, smoke, stone, honeycomb
- Tree fruit · apricot, peach, pear, melon, apple
- Citrus · marmalade, orange, citrus, lemon, orange peel
- Oak · vanilla, caramel, oak, butter, chocolate
- Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, mango, lychee, passion fruit
- Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, banana, oil, lemon curd
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon, Muscadelle. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a community score.
- 2024unit not stated
- 2023unit not stated
- 202278unit not stated
- 202185unit not stated
- 202084unit not stated
- 201983unit not stated
- 201882unit not stated
- 201782unit not stated
- 201677unit not stated
- 201582unit not stated
- 201481unit not stated
- 201382unit not stated
- 201279unit not stated
- 201184unit not stated
- 201080unit not stated
- 200985unit not stated
- 200880unit not stated
- 200789unit not stated
- 200678unit not stated
- 2001unit not stated
- 1990unit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2007
- 89 / 100 from drinkers