Cuvée Madame is the super-special bottling made only in the most successful vintages at Château Coutet in Barsac and, as I explain in Selling Sauternes by Twitter, I was lucky enough to taste each of the four (only) vintages made since 1995 and currently on the market. Aline Baly came over to London in July to show off the latest release, the 2003, with its smart new label.
Cuvée Madame, of which only about 1,200 to 1,400 bottles are made, is based on a berry-by-berry (not even bunch-by-bunch) selection of the finest grapes on two contiguous parcels of Sémillon...