OVER THE YEARS, readers have asked why I haven’t written more about sweet wines. I regret overlooking this category, and no more so than in the case of Sauternes, the great sweet white wine of Bordeaux.
Sauternes has been off the radar of Americans for decades, and the wines are often hard to track down. The tiny Sauternes appellation—located just south of Graves in Bordeaux and composed of five communes that include Sauternes and Barsac—accounts for just 1% of the wines produced in Bordeaux.
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