100 James Suckling - Jamessuckling.com

Perfect aromas carry through to every milliliter of this wine, showing intense orange peel, honey, butterscotch, saffron, smoke and peat, with hints of coffee and dried apples. Full-bodied but weightless and silky, with an excellent balance of fruit, sweetness and spices. Some peanut brittle, dried oranges and lemons at the end. I can’t get over how wonderful this is now, but it can age forever. 154 g/L residual sugar. Drink or hold.

100 Yohan Castaing - Robert Parker's the Wine Advocate

With 153 grams per liter of residual sugar—placing it among the 10 most concentrated vintages in the château’s history—the 2023 d'Yquem ranks among the finest wines bottled here under Lorenzo Pasquini’s direction. It unfurls from the glass with a complex, vibrant and remarkably pure bouquet of pineapple, guava, mango, confit citrus, beeswax and spices. Full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it combines formidable depth with perfectly judged control, built around a fleshy core of fruit, framed by lively acidity and a crystalline texture and culminating in an endless, refined and ethereal finish. Yquem’s natural power is here masterfully harnessed by the vintage’s freshness and tension, revealing an aesthetic of precision and vibrancy encountered only in the estate’s greatest years—made all the more remarkable by the fact that the château now achieves even higher levels of concentration than a decade ago, without any perceptible increase in sweetness on the palate.

100 Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

Power, freshness, depth, after the extremes of 2021 and 2022, this walks the line between the two, exceptional, mandarin, quince, mirabelle plums, white truffle, fresh fruit and confit fruit, a vibration of slate and steel, opulent but slices closed on the finish. The botrytis came early and quickly in 2023. Francis Mayeur in final vintage as consultant, after many years as inhouse winemaking team, Lorenzo Pasquini director. 154g/l residual sugar, 3.85ph, harvest September 14 to October 11.

100 Yves Beck - YvesBeck.wine

The purity of the bouquet, paired with profound subtlety, immediately opens the door to excellence, harmony, and detail. Countless nuances gather at the threshold, yet none seeks to dominate. Consistency does not come at the expense of complexity. Everything works in complement. Dense and creamy on the attack, the wine establishes itself with both depth and delicacy. It is caressing, silky, vibrant, and beautifully reflects the aromatic characteristics, ideally lifted by fine bitters. These bitters reinforce the freshness and welcome tension that frame the wine’s generous, creamy, and fleshy side. A distinct salinity energizes the entire palate, especially on the finish where it joins those fine bitters, stretching the wine’s length even further. What remarkable persistence, suppleness, vigor, and liveliness, with an extraordinary ability to tie every element together. A complete, compelling, and brilliant wine with an endless finish.

100 Adrian Van Velsen - Vinum

Bright golden yellow. What a bouquet. The nose is refined and layered, offering dried apricots, candied lemon, Williams pear, almonds, cedarwood, along with orange blossom, sage, and rosemary, all delivered with top-level complexity. On the palate, it is creamy and powerful, yet never heavy or overdone, with tremendous richness and texture. At the same time, it is remarkably fresh and equipped with magnificent acidity, seeming to float across the tongue and echoing almost endlessly on the finish. A delicate d’Yquem built for a small eternity, it presents itself, after the elegance-driven 2021 and the concentration- and power-centered 2022, as a harmonious symbiosis of both preceding vintages.

100 Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider

What a difference a few months make in a young wine. In January I scored the 2023 Yquem, a very high 99 Pts. Clearly I was wrong. Retasting this a few months later was a revelation. The wine added weight, zesty, freshness and seemingly endless layers of honey-drenched vibrant fruit, with a finish looking at the 90-second mark. Today it reminds me of the 2001 in its youth, only better. Sweet wines lovers and d’Yquem fans need this wine. Drink from 2030-2100.

100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Palate

The pale gold colored 2023 d'Yquem hits the ground running with vibrant notes of honey-drizzled peaches, juicy pears, and fresh mangoes, leading to a fragrant, highly nuanced undercurrent, including notions of beeswax, chamomile blossoms, and fresh ginger, with a waft of allspice. The rich, seductive, decadently flamboyant palate immediately satisfies with rich orchard and tropical fruit layers, but manages to hold back with tantalizing nuances of floral and mineral notes, electrified by a racy backbone, finishing with epic length and a whispery promise of more stories to tell future generations. Monumental. The residual sugar is 154 grams per liter and the blend is 70% Sémillon and 30% Sauvignon Blanc

99 Neal Martin - Vinous Media

The 2023 Yquem, a blend of 70% Sémillon and 30% Sauvignon Blanc, contains 154 grams per litre of residual sugar—less than the 2022. As usual, the 2023 was matured in 100% new oak, mainly French, with a small percentage from Austria. The nose is so seductive that it should come with a warning sticker. Pure and mellow, it offers beguiling scents of wild honey, quince jelly, almond shavings and that signature hint of saffron destined to accentuate with age. It displays wonderful definition, though it does not have the “aromatic drama” of the previous vintage. The palate has exquisite balance and poise that belies the depth of this Yquem, though it is less exuberant, less ostentatious than the 2022. It is really the umami sensation that defines the 2023, how it caresses, almost soothes the grateful taste buds, vanilla and flecks of white chocolate lingering on the aftertaste. This will probably drink a little sooner than the 2022. If the 2023 does have a fault, it’s that it is so flattering in its flush of youth that it will be difficult to resist. Sublime.