Description / Reviews
// 100% Semillon, elevage for 3 years in 100% French oak barrels, bottled in June 1992. Released from the winery cellar.
"The 1989 Coutet Cuvée Madame is a vintage that I have encountered only before in 2011. This was a small production of 1,000 bottles only. To be brutally honest, it cannot compare with its 1990 counterpart on the nose, although it is beautifully defined with melted wax, dried apricot, hints of honeysuckle and a touch of pain d’épices. The palate is actually better than the nose: very tensile thanks to a killer line of acidity, full of energy, less unctuous than the 1990 but with impressive detail and tension all the way through to the finish. (175gm/L residual sugar, 13.0% alcohol)." - 93 points, Neal Martin
"The 1989 Cuvée Madame is deep, bright gold in color. This blockbuster sweet wine offers up aromas of coffee, custard, pain grillé, honeyed tropical fruits, and a note of coconut. Unctuously-textured, and oozing glycerin extract and richness, this full-bodied, yet extraordinarily well-delineated wine offers the rare combination of power and complexity. It is an amazingly thick Cuvée Madame that suffers only in comparison with its surrounding siblings."- 96 points, Robert Parker (September 1994)
