Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
"At 130 g/l residual, this is an unusually sweet style for this chateau. It has pronounced spicy, quite roasted and barley-sugar flavours and quite a low alcohol (13?4), whilst the acidity is quite high, all this providing a wholesome quite early-drinking wine that will certainly also not break the bank." --Bill Blatch, bordeauxgold.com
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
WS 97
WA 100
ST 94
Incredibly racy. Intense! Superaromatic. Honey, dried pineapple, minerals and superlush spice. Medium sweet. Electric to taste. Lasts for minutes. Score range: 95-100
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
WS 97
WA 100
ST 94
Incredibly racy. Intense! Superaromatic. Honey, dried pineapple, minerals and superlush spice. Medium sweet. Electric to taste. Lasts for minutes. Score range: 95-100
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
WS 96
ST 92
Loads of honey, maple syrup, dried apricot and spice. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with a refined, spicy character. Pretty wine. Masses of botrytis. This is refined and long, a racy wine compared with the power and muscle of so many others. Beauty among the beasts. Best after 2012. 2,300 cases made.
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
WS 96
ST 92
Loads of honey, maple syrup, dried apricot and spice. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with a refined, spicy character. Pretty wine. Masses of botrytis. This is refined and long, a racy wine compared with the power and muscle of so many others. Beauty among the beasts. Best after 2012. 2,300 cases made.
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
WS 96
ST 92
Loads of honey, maple syrup, dried apricot and spice. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with a refined, spicy character. Pretty wine. Masses of botrytis. This is refined and long, a racy wine compared with the power and muscle of so many others. Beauty among the beasts. Best after 2012. 2,300 cases made.
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend | Location: France - Sauternes - Barsac
"This is a tough call to make, as the wine is still in 14 of the original 17 lots and a prototype blend has not yet been attempted. So we just have to taste all the lots and then do the assemblage in our heads. The main body of the blend will be composed of the highly botrytised pickings of 2nd to 6th October. These lots taste rich yet very fine, almost delicate and extremely florally expressive. They will be blended with the smaller and also finer and lighter first pickings and some but not all of the heavier final ones. My guess is that this is classic Climens: not over-sweet or overstated in any way, all purity and finesse, albeit on a background of rich intensity, which will be slightly less sweet in appearance than '07." Bill Blatch