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  • Country ranking ?

    1 051
  • Producer ranking ?

    24
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now-2050

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The Story

This noble sweet white wine, graceful and weightless, is a subtle wine that is like no other. If it is the very expression of the quintessence of this appellation with balance and freshness, it also has the strength and magnificence among the greatest Sauternes. Climens is characterized by brilliance or depth, borne only of its unique terroir.

This special grace, the result of tightness and minerality is also blessed with an extraordinary a...

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Château Climens is one of the rare Bordeaux Grands Crus Classés to invest so much in the respect of the environment with full biodynamic practices since 2010 and a systematic certification of the vineyard since 2014. Moreover, 2016 is an important date for the estate with the awarding of the mention "Wine made from Demeter grapes" which enshrines practices related to the wine in addition to those related to the vineyard.

The 2016 vintage is...

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Vintage 2016

2016 Bordeaux in Review  “A Paradox”

by Andrew Caillard MW

The 2016 Bordeaux vintage will be remembered as one of the great years of the 21st Century. I have not been so excited about the prospects of such young wines since the remarkable back-to-back 2009 and 2010 vintages. At that time China was at the zenith of its extraordinary fine wine ascendency where the very top estates, particularly Chateau Lafite, had become a baksheesh curren...

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Barrel sample tasted in April 2017. Based on tasted barrel samples/lots, I think this vintage is close to 2015, maybe slightly less rich and intense.

  • 97p

Attractive flinty camomile grapefruit fig aromas with glacé pure honey notes The palate is beautifully concentrated, opulent yet not overly unctuous, with silky textures, sweet apricot grapefruit glacé flavours, fine chalky slinky textures and long mineral cut. Tasted in 12 parts so it takes imagination to make it a whole. 97 points

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Barsac, Bordeaux
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