Sauternes · vintage 2006
Château Guiraud 2006
Ageing potential20+ years
Why this vintage
- The 2006 vintage in SauternesA rainy September called for selective picking passes: balanced, clean wines, without excess liqueur.
- Ageing potential20+ years
The 2006 vintage in Sauternes
Vintage benchmark: 91/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A rainy September called for selective picking passes: balanced, clean wines, without excess liqueur.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Sauternes. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
The wine is rich and very structured. 2006 is already expressed by great minerality and freshness on the palate. Added to this are notes of honey, spices and exotic fruits. Concentrated, the texture is silky and delicious. A very nice balance.
Blend of the 2006 vintage
- 65 % Sémillon
- 35 % Sauvignon
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2006 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with sémillon, sauvignon blanc, sauvignon gris, muscadelle — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2006 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 8 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 100,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
The fermentation and ageing carried out in barrels take advantage of the beneficial effects of contact between the wine and the wood by the extraction of certain organoleptic characters from the oak thanks to the action of the yeasts which will mix with the wine, also providing a certain finesse.
Ageing
Depending on the vintage, ageing on lees for 3 to 6 months is practiced with regular stirring, then regular racking is carried out every 3 months.
Terroir
Situated 45 km south of Bordeaux on the left bank of the Garonne, Château Guiraud, with an area of 128 ha, has among its distinctive features that of lying entirely within the commune of Sauternes. The climate of the Sauternes appellation is oceanic. Winters there are mild and damp; spring, also damp, is temperate. Summers are moderately warm and give the vine a gradual ripening. It is in autumn that the weather conditions differ from those of a normal oceanic climate. The Sauternes district then comes under the influence of a particular microclimate, favouring the development of a microscopic fungus, botrytis cinerea or noble rot, without which Sauternes would not exist.
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Texts and documents 2006
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.