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Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Advocate
Pale lemon-gold colored, the 2012 Climens has a slightly evolved nose sporting honeyed nut and toast notes with a core of lemon pie, fresh hay and allspice. Big, rich and powerful in the mouth, with maturing citrus and stone fruit notions, it has a provocatively spicy finish.
The exceptional distinctiveness of Chateau Climens led to the property being referred to very early on as the ‘Seigneur de Barsac’, despite the word ‘Climens’ referring to a poor-quality soil in ancient Celtic. It is a well-known paradox in the world of wine that vines have the ability to ennoble even the most ungrateful soils, exceptional terroirs if ever there was one, by thrusting their roots deep into the subsoil.