Château Rabaud-Promis is an intense and
structured Sauternes whose reputation is growing in
proportion with the painstaking care its authors devote it.
Ageing extends its aromatic complexity to a spectacular
dimension. When young, it has a buttercup yellow colour
and lovely notes of gorses and lime blossom. Delicate
grapefruit flavours develop with time maturing into
characteristic citrus fruits and honey aromas. The food
pairings are easy to imagine: foie gras, feuilleté of veal
sweetbreads or game pies, roasted fowl. This latter affinity
is no news to the Déjean family: “Whenever there was roast
chicken for dinner,” says Philippe, “my father would fetch a
bottle of Sauternes wine from the cellar!”