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  • Château Climens Premier Cru Classé 2008

Château Climens Premier Cru Classé 2008

Sweet wine | Barsac, Sauternes AC

Smooth and airy sweet white, Château Climens is a subtle wine that is unlike any other. If it expresses all the quintessence of the Barsac appellation through its balance and freshness, it also has the power and sumptuousness of the greatest Sauternes. Climens is perhaps defined above all by a brilliance, a depth, conferred by its unique terroir.
CHF 109.00 (75cl)
CHF 109.00 (75cl)
CHF 14.53/10cl
  • France Bordeaux
  • Sémillon
  • 15 - 30 years
  • 13.7% Vol.
Awards and reviews from professionals
  • 19 100
    Jancis Robinson
    Jackpot! Combines oak, dried fruit and mushroomy notes in the way that so few sweet wines bring together in such a perfect chorus. Thick, viscous, lengthy, complex – an absolute thing of wonder. 31/07/2023.
  • 18 100
    Bettane & Desseauve
    Très tendu, très barsac, avec ses arômes d'acacia inimitables, finesse transcendante, grande concentration de matière et beaucoup d'énergie.
  • 95 100
    Anthocyanes
    Arômes de camphre, d’épices, de safran, d’orange confite pour un style un peu plus classique que les précédents millésimes de cette verticale. Puissante, dense, très fruitée la bouche est sur l’allonge. Un vin très iodé, très marin dans sa complexité aromatique. 06/09/2021.
  • 93 100
    Vinous
    It has a much less expressive nose than the 2009: honey, wet wool, slightly petrolly in style. The palate is very well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, great depth and intensity, showing more clarity than the nose suggests. I would afford this another two or three years in bottle. Excellent. Neal Martin. 18/08/2022.
  • 93 100
    Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
    This has a very well -defined nose of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod that unfolds seductively in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with a mellifluous texture, although there remains some oak that needs to be subsumed into the wine. It displays fine definition towards the finish with impressive length. Always a little curmudgeonly in its youth, this Climens deserves a decade in bottle. Neal Martin.
  • 91 100
    Wine Spectator
    Ripe and luxurious, with creamed ginger, almond and glazed pear notes laced with warm piecrust, apricot and clementine flavors. Long and authoritative on the finish, this is frankly sweet, but with the latent purity for balance. James Molesworth. 31/03/2011

Features

Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-region Sauternes
Wine type Sweet wine
Wine style Sweet
Designation Barsac, Sauternes AC
Grape variety Sémillon
Alcohol content 13.7% Vol.
Cellaring 15 - 30 years
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Château Climens Premier Cru Classé 2008
CHF 109.00 (75cl)
CHF 109.00 (75cl)
Colour
Colour

Beautiful light amber yellow.

Nose
Nose

With aromas of dried pineapple, quince and vanilla pod.

Palate
Palate

A medium-bodied wine with a mellifluous texture, despite the presence of wood, which is well integrated into the wine. It has a beautiful finish with impressive length.

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