Chateau Climens 2006

Proprietor Berenice Lurton continues to turn out one of the utterly profound wines from the Barsac Sauternes region. It is a beautiful wine. Medium gold, with a slightly more advanced colour than one is used to seeing in a young Climens, the wine displays waxy honeyed pineapple and delicate marmalade and citrus notes with a restrained use of new oak. The wine cuts a full-bodied swath across the palate with terrific acidity, freshness and moderate sweetness. This is a beauty, but perhaps on a much faster evolutionary track than some of their greatest vintages.