Talk:Château d'Yquem

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Contents 1 Discussion header 2 Botyrization? 3 Recent Publicity 4 rating 5 Pronunciation?

[edit] Discussion header

Can one glass per vine really be correct - their vineyard would have to be huge. Rmhermen 16:19, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

According to their site, they harvest approximately 9 hectolitres per hectare, so 900 litres. If you define a glass as 150ml (a fifth of a bottle) then you need a density of 6000 vines/ha. I couldn't find numbers for d'Yquem, but La Tour has a density of 6200 vines/ha. A glass per vine is entirely possible, but I certainly agree that I was surprised. Also, the d'Yquem vineyard has approximately 100ha of producing vines, so 90,000 litres per year is their capacity, so 120,000 bottles. Walter Moar 21:28, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Botyrization?

However, at that time the technique of botyrization of Sauternes had not yet been discovered, so the wine Jefferson was drinking was a different, though still fine, sweet wine.

What is "botyrization"? A Google search of the word turns up nothing, and it appears nowhere else in Wikipedia. --TreyHarris 22:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good catch. The word is clearly derived from Botrytis, and I at first just linked it to noble rot. (This is a fungus which rots the grapes in a beneficial way). I looked for some spellings:

• botyrization - no hits in Google (not even this page, oddly)
• botrytization - 23 hits in Google
• botrytisation - 197 hits in Google, but most in the French language
• botrytisization, botrytisisation - no hits in Google

So while the first is clearly wrong, none of the others are much better. I'll reword it somehow. Notinasnaid 08:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, there is no such thing as botrytization. It happens naturally, it's not a technique. Now, maybe the contributor meant the process of waiting for botrytis to infect the grapes. Yquem does make a non-botrytized dry wine called Ygrec, which might be worth mentioning in this context. Wnissen 06:21, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's botrytisation. Botrytis, botrytised, botrytis-ation. As in "highly botrytised" and so on. Philip Howard 16:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Publicity

The BBC had an item on D'Yquem recently, about an C18 bottle which sold for £58,000. It might be worth mentioning to show the sort of prices the Chateau can command.

[edit] rating

the statement 'Château d'Yquem was the only Sauternes given this rating' but weren't they the only Château of any region/red/white to get the Supérieur rating? This would be much better in the article as they are 'unique'. Link: Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 Ctbolt 03:57, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation?

I was surprised to find no pronunciation guidance—can someone with knowledge of both the pronunciation and IPA add it? Thanks! 209.6.154.66 (talk) 15:04, 24 December 2007 (UTC) —johndburger 15:10, 24 December 2007 (UTC)