Chateau Rabaud Promis, Sauternes, 2001 (375ml) MOMOCELLAR while keeping the core of

while keeping the core of highland agave flavor front and center

and “Croix du Roy” is one of his signature bottlings—grown on limestone-rich soils near Bué and made with exacting care

generous Cornas with plenty of flesh over the granite

plus a finish that's long and refined

Chateau Rabaud Promis, Sauternes, 2001 (375ml) MOMOCELLAR while keeping the core of2001 is the vintage Sauternes drinkers hold onto: a warm, settled late summer followed by one of the driest Septembers on record, with mist filled mornings and warm, settled afternoons textbook noble rot weather and the wines came in with rare concentration and aromatic lift. Rabaud Promis is a First Growth in the 1855 Sauternes classification, farming a sloping gravel and clay hillside in Bommes that in places is so thick with stones it looks more