1964 Château Climens

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.7 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View HowardNZ's profile
  • Report Issue

  12/1/2019 - HowardNZ Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Wines with Wayne (Auckland, NZ): Small pour and brief note. A treat from Wayne, him knowing that Climens is a favourite Sauternes/Barsac domaine for me. Really interesting. A complex bouquet of resin, dried apricot, button mushrooms, pears, preserved limes and lemons, dry tilled soil and dried mixed herbs with a touch of honey. On palate, a subtle, understated beauty. Only a little sweetness remains. Subtle and quite savoury. Herbal, mushroomy and earthy, showing a distinct white truffle character. Some lime juice and dried or preserved yellow fruits in the background. Lovely acidity. Great length. Still very much alive. Brilliant!

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View KenPlace's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/27/2018 - KenPlace wrote: 95 Points

  Opened for Berenice Lurton at a function in Raleigh, NC. The cork was 5/12 of an inch depressed and almost fell in when I put in the corkscrew. Despite this, this bottle was glorious! Lively, long, with great acidity with lots of developed fruit. A wow wine!

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Salikk's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/28/2017 - Salikk wrote: 94 Points

  Nose of apricot, honey and oak. Medium bodied brown sugar (not burn sugar) and apricot pineapple and hint of lime

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View pabernatchez's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/2/2010 - pabernatchez wrote: 93 Points

  This is the living proof that great estates can prevail in tough vintages... this "Haut-Barsac" as the label says was very youthful : so much so, that when served blind, most of us thought it was either a 1990, 1989 or somewhere in the mid-1980's... Still has a lot of sugar, but is certainly refined... Not too exhuberant, more restrained and focussed... Pretty nice definition too... This wine will last easily for another 15-20 years !

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Paul D's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/20/2007 - Paul D wrote: 87 Points

  A Tale of Two Chateaux - Rauzan-Segla and Climens (The Wine Society, Stevenage): Another difficult vintage. Medium/deep gold. Quite light on the nose, but again amazingly youthful at over 40 years of age, showing candied fruit, a little spice and slightly creamy orange notes. More orangey on the palate, light with slightly subdued acidity, but still very much alive, although does tail off a little on the finish.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.