Chateau Rieussec Sauternes 2003 (375ml) CS20230516 Drew Neiman cut his teeth

Drew Neiman cut his teeth working harvests under John Kongsgaard starting in 1994 — that's pedigree most Napa winemakers would kill for

The wines tend to be vertical and linear where neighbors are broad

George's grape" famous from Nemea) grown across the Peloponnese

designed for easy sipping or mixing

Chateau Rieussec Sauternes 2003 (375ml) CS20230516 Drew Neiman cut his teethSweet wines aren't in fashion, which means for wine lovers willing to buck a trend it is an opportunity. Rieussec is a Premier Cru Class of the 1855 Sauternes classification, sitting on clay gravel terroir just over the river from Chteau d'Yquem, and it has been steered by the Rothschilds of Lafite since the 1980s. 2003 was the heat wave vintage in Bordeaux: intense, unusual, and for Sauternes a year of remarkably concentrated, almost exotic botrytis.