Yquem

[ ee-kem ]

noun

1. Château d', a sweet white wine from the estate of Château d'Yquem in the Sauternes region of France.

Yquem

/ iːˈkɛm /

noun

1. a French vineyard of the Sauternes area of Bordeaux that produces a sweet white table wine Also calledChâteau d'Yquem

Example Sentences

In the following excerpt, “Y is for Yquem,” she writes of a time in her early thirties, between marriages, when she wasted a year on a man who was all wrong for her.

From Salon

Montaigne’s essays can seem like the Yquem of writing: sweet but smart, honeyed but a little acid.

From The New Yorker

In the late 1980s, Mr. Dubourdieu branched out into a consulting career that took him to the top estates in Bordeaux, including Cheval Blanc and Yquem.

From New York Times

Seated in the chef’s dining room, a black room decorated with a gold oval table and backlit bottles of vintage Château Yquem, which lined the walls, Laurent and I chatted about Naouel.

From The New Yorker

This scent he breathes deeply, as alert to its nuances as Robert M. Parker is when inhaling from a glass of 1787 Chateau Yquem.

From New York Times