White Blend
White Blend is a catch-all category for white grape blends that are not based upon a traditional regional composition. Assemblage information can be found either in the wine’s designation, review text or on the producer’s Web site. You can use Wine Enthusiast’s online Buying Guide to find the top-rated White Blends among our extensive White Blend wine reviews and easy-to-use database. Our White Blend reviews will give you a general idea what to expect from wines made from White Blends, and will help you find one that best suits your needs.
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Château d'Yquem 2009 Barrel sample White (Sauternes)
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98-100 Barrel sample. The aromas are so rich and powerful, with great ripe apricots. There are honey, spice and beautiful sweet spiced pears. This is an extraordinary wine in an extraordinary year in Sauternes.
— R.V.
(8/9/2010)
Château Climens 2007 White (Barsac)
- Cellar Selection
- $200
A big, rich wine, showing its gorgeous fruit easily. But with a core of dryness, the ripest apricots touched by caramel, it should age well over many years. There is intense power here, still hidden by the youth of the wine, but with final concentration.
— R.V.
(6/1/2010)
Château Haut-Brion 2007 White (Pessac-Léognan)
- Cellar Selection
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- $800
The palate opens slowly, offering an initial citrus character, followed by wood and then, finally, wonderfully rich, but taut fruit. There is still a toast character here, with apricots and pear on top of the citrus, but it is still only just developing. In 10–15 years, it will be a magnificent wine.
— R.V.
(12/15/2010)
Château Climens 2009 Barrel sample White (Barsac)
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97-99 Barrel sample. A tasting from several barrels, because the chateau has not made the final blend, so the rating is provisional. But the wine is so rich, with an almost perfect balance of acidity and ripeness, allied to a complete purity of honeyed botrytis. However the final wine turns out, it will be magnificent.
— R.V.
(8/9/2010)
Dolce 2006 Semillon-Sauvignon Blanc (Napa Valley)
- $85
With this wine, Dolce cements its status as California’s most consistently great dessert wine. This year’s blend is 80% Sémillon and 20% Sauvignon Blanc, and the grapes were infected with the botrytis, resulting in the fantastic sweetness. Devastating in apricot, orange, pear, honey, vanilla and créme brûlée flavors, in an unctuous, viscous texture, with…
— S.H.
(6/1/2011)
Dolce 1999 Late Harvest Table Wine White (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $75
Oh, how good this sweetie is. If you have just one white dessert wine this year, make it this rich, thick, unctuous wine, with its fabulous flavors of apricot marmalade, orange honey, pineapple, chutney, smoke, vanilla, toast, toasted hazelnut, the list goes on and on. Fills the mouth with velvety opulence, and finishes very long. A special wine of great distinction.
— S.H.
(12/1/2003)
Domaine de Chevalier 2001 White (Pessac-Léognan)
- Cellar Selection
- $100
This is one of the legendary whites of Bordeaux. It lives up to its reputation. The 2001 vintage of the Domaine de Chevalier white (tasted from half bottle) is well-evolved, packed with flavors of almonds, toast, spice, fresh grapefruits, white fruits and an impressive layer of acidity. It will age for a good 20 years or more. Expect a full bottle to be less…
— R.V.
(6/1/2005)
Beringer 2003 Nightingale Semillon-Sauvignon Blanc (Napa Valley)
- $40
The warm vintage rewarded this dessert wine, yielding incredibly ripe fruit. Barrel-fermented, this blend of Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc was picked at 35% of sugar, and has a residual sweetness of 12.1 grams. The wine is tremendous in apricot jam, pineapple tart, vanilla custard and crème brûlée flavors, with gorgeously balancing, clean acids and a rich, honeyed finish.
— S.H.
(6/1/2007)
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