[
US
/soʊˈtɝn/
]
[ UK /sˈɔːtən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɔːtən/ ]
NOUN
- semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California
How To Use Sauterne In A Sentence
- At the summit of the Sauternes appellation is the world famous Chateau d' Yquem.
- A pause ensued, before the table was replenished — a sort of parenthesis in which Mr. Simpson, Mr. Calton, and Mr. Hicks, produced respectively a bottle of sauterne, bucellas, and sherry, and took wine with everybody — except Tibbs. Sketches by Boz
- Pan-fried foie gras followed swiftly, served with roasted fresh figs and a rather incongruous glass of Sauternes.
- Get to know French Sauternes dessert wines; learn more about wine in this free instructional video.
- Strawberry cream cake could have lived happily ever after with a Sauternes sabayon.
- For the great sweet Bordeaux whites, you need Sauternes of similar status and you go to d' Yquem, where they don't do red.
- A sweet white wine from the Sauternes region of southwest France.
- While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus.
- The 2001 vintage was a stunning one for Sauternes, and their grapes produced wines oozing in sweetness.
- You don't often find a bottle like this: it's a rare example of a honeyed, luscious, intense Sauternes at a reasonable price.