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    Château d'Yquem (French: [ʃɑto dikɛm]) is a Premier Cru Supérieur (Fr: "Superior First Growth") wine from the Sauternes, Gironde region in the southern...
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    France. Château Margaux Château Haut-Brion Château d'Yquem Château Cheval-Blanc The winery denomination Château is now protected by French law, and confirmed...
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    Les Echos-Le Parisien Group, its media subsidiary. The wine estate Château d'Yquem, whose origins date back to 1593, is under LVMH ownership. Bernard...
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    Wines from Sauternes, especially the Premier Cru Supérieur estate Château d'Yquem, can be very expensive, largely due to the very high cost of production...
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  • other well known wine brands such as Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Château d'Yquem and Ruinart. Despite LVMH's majority ownership, the Krug family is...
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  • region of Graves, the winery is located in Preignac, adjacent to Château d'Yquem. Château Raymond-Lafon Coates, Clive (2004). The Wines of Bordeaux. University...
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    Sauternes and Barsac were classified into three categories, with only Château d'Yquem being classified as a superior first growth. In 1955, St. Émilion AOC...
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    in the 1880s. These cuttings came from the Sauternes vineyards of Château d'Yquem. The plantings produced well in Livermore Valley. Eventually, the wine...
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    till today. Among them should be distinguished Polish Honey (1814) Château d'Yquem (1861) and first Georgian bottled wine of 1841, Saperavi (This is the...
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    historically rated vineyard, Château d'Yquem, east of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey and Château Clos Haut-Peyraguey, and south of Château Suduiraut. The 1850 edition...
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    time owner of Château d'Yquem, Château Filhot and Château de Malle and thus the largest producer of sweet white wines in the world. Château Coutet remained...
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  • constellation similar to that of the group's other chief property Château d'Yquem. LVMH acquired Arnault's share in 2009. The vineyard is considered...
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    commune of Bommes, and its château is situated on a hill top facing Sauternes' highest classed vineyard, Château d'Yquem. It produces a second wine,...
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  • (Pessac-Leognan) Château Mouton-Rothschild Médoc (Pauillac) Château d'Yquem (Sauternes) Château La Tour Blanche, Bommes (Sauternes) Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey...
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    Sauternes.] Yquem, now Château d'Yquem, Sauternes Latour Blanche, now Château La Tour Blanche, Bommes (Sauternes) Peyraguey, now Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey...
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    by Alexis Lichine to surpass Château d'Yquem as "lighter, with less vinosity and body, yet miraculously subtle." Château Climens also produces a second...
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    purchased Château Cheval Blanc in a personal capacity. LVMH acquired Arnault's share in 2009 to add to the group's other wine property Château d'Yquem. From...
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    famous dessert wines, such as Tokaji Aszú of Tokaj-Hegyalja in Hungary, Château d'Yquem of Sauternes, and Seewinkel of Austria, are made using grapes mouldy...
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    have levels much higher than this. For example, the great vintages of Château d'Yquem contain between 100 and 150 g/L of residual sugar. The sweetest form...
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    for 36 years acted as manager of Château d’Yquem, and at the time of his death still acted in this capacity for Château de Fargues, both Sauternais châteaux...
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    1998 at Hotel Königshof in Munich, when a tasting of 125 vintages of Château d'Yquem, the oldest of which were of the 1784 vintage, was held. Two eighteenth-century...
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    a wine collector after being shown a display of bottles from Château d'Yquem and Château Pétrus while in Montpellier, France. In 2014, he put part of...
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  • highest price paid for a bottle of white wine, purchasing a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem, vintage 1811, for £75,000 (US$123,000) from The Antique Wine Company...
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    Supérieur classified Château d'Yquem. Wines produced in the region of Barsac, such as Premiers Crus Château Climens and Château Coutet are allowed to...
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    appearance of the Great Comet of 1811, is perhaps the most famous. The 1811 Château d'Yquem has exhibited what wine experts like Robert Parker have described as...
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    2008, 17 Bordeaux wine producers, including Château d'Yquem, Château Olivier, Château Suduiraut and Château La Tour Blanche, formed an association to grow...
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    In 1953, with the help of Count Lur-Saluces of Château d'Yquem, Lichine renamed the Prieuré to Château Prieuré-Lichine. With the estate renamed in 1953...
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  • Collective that French wine producers, such as Château Calon-Segur, Château Palmer, Saint Estephe, and Château Le Puy, gained 130% rise in sales in Japan...
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    world's finest vintages, including the Tsar's favourite, and priceless, Château d'Yquem 1847. So keen were the mob to obtain the alcohol, that the Bolsheviks...
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    thanks to decades of relentless lobbying. Subsequently, the owner of Château d'Yquem sued unsuccessfully to have the reclassification reversed as illegitimate...
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