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2010 Climens Sauternes Blend

Sauternes Blend: 375ml

$59.99

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points awarded:
JS 96 WA 94-96

Geoffrey Binder, JJ Buckley, February 2013

100% semillon. Aged in 35% new oak.Vibrant yellow/straw hue. This was hands down, the most backwards, closed wine of the tasting. Completely unyielding at first, requiring sometime in the glass to finally shed its inner beauty. True to Climens style, this is promising to be a wine for the annals. It is ripe and tropical, yet beautifully spiced. So much tension on the palate, with bucket-loads of vibrant acids. The fruit is compact yet ethereal, with an abundance of floral notes and ripe yellow stone fruit. I expect this will last much longer than I can predict.It certainly won't show its full potential for another 5-7 years, and will really start hitting its stride somewhere in the range of 25+ years, drinking well for at least 15 after that. 2018-2050+.


96 points,

James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, February 2013

Attractive nose with hazelnuts, vanilla and apricot. Lots of dried orange peel and honey in this excellent sweet wine. Dense and very sweet on the palate with bright acidity and wonderful purity of fruit. Soft, well-balanced and very elegant long finish. Medium sweetness. Intense botrytis spice on finish. Better in 2016.


Jancis Robinson, April 2011

There is the vintage tanginess in this wine but also the property's trademark purity and unctuousness. As usual, it was not possible to taste (or give the analysis of) anything approximating to the final blend - just lots from the various pickings in late September and October - but this is looking like a top quality rendition of 2010, even if not a big and blossomy as the 2009. Please note that the analytical data are estimations from Bill Blatch. RS 145g/l, TA 4.2. 19 out of 20


94 -96 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, May 2011

Berenice Lurton and her team managed to pick the crop just hours before rains fell on October 23. Tasting through every one of their lots in 2010, there was a theme of tautness, racy acidity and spice. Focusing upon two batches representing about 14% of the harvest, there was patently exquisite balance and a sense of concentrated but efficient power, counterbalanced by immense purity and effervescence. Their problem will be knowing exactly which lots to deselect! -Neal Martin


Geoffrey Binder, JJ Buckley, February 2013

100% semillon. Aged in 35% new oak.Vibrant yellow/straw hue. This was hands down, the most backwards, closed wine of the tasting. Completely unyielding at first, requiring sometime in the glass to finally shed its inner beauty. True to Climens style, this is promising to be a wine for the annals. It is ripe and tropical, yet beautifully spiced. So much tension on the palate, with bucket-loads of vibrant acids. The fruit is compact yet ethereal, with an abundance of floral notes and ripe yellow stone fruit. I expect this will last much longer than I can predict.It certainly won't show its full potential for another 5-7 years, and will really start hitting its stride somewhere in the range of 25+ years, drinking well for at least 15 after that. 2018-2050+.


96 points,

James Suckling, jamessuckling.com, February 2013

Attractive nose with hazelnuts, vanilla and apricot. Lots of dried orange peel and honey in this excellent sweet wine. Dense and very sweet on the palate with bright acidity and wonderful purity of fruit. Soft, well-balanced and very elegant long finish. Medium sweetness. Intense botrytis spice on finish. Better in 2016.


Jancis Robinson, April 2011

There is the vintage tanginess in this wine but also the property's trademark purity and unctuousness. As usual, it was not possible to taste (or give the analysis of) anything approximating to the final blend - just lots from the various pickings in late September and October - but this is looking like a top quality rendition of 2010, even if not a big and blossomy as the 2009. Please note that the analytical data are estimations from Bill Blatch. RS 145g/l, TA 4.2. 19 out of 20


94 -96 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, May 2011

Berenice Lurton and her team managed to pick the crop just hours before rains fell on October 23. Tasting through every one of their lots in 2010, there was a theme of tautness, racy acidity and spice. Focusing upon two batches representing about 14% of the harvest, there was patently exquisite balance and a sense of concentrated but efficient power, counterbalanced by immense purity and effervescence. Their problem will be knowing exactly which lots to deselect! -Neal Martin


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