Château Climens 1979 Bottle (75cl)
The 1979 Château Climens is a sweet white wine from Barsac in Bordeaux, produced by Château Climens and classified as a Premier Cru Classé de Sauternes. Made from 100% Sémillon, it belongs to the Lurton family. The Wine Advocate awards it 85/100, describing an elegant and graceful Barsac, relatively rich yet lighter and drier in its expression. Jancis Robinson rates it 17/20. Published drinking windows span from 1988 to 2000 and from 1988 to 2008, respectively.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Top Shoulder
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Sweet
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bordeaux
- Appellation
- Sauternes
- Producteur / Domaine
- Château Climens
- Millésime
- 1979
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Sémillon
Château Climens
Château Climens is a wine estate situated in Barsac, in the Gironde, classified as a Premier Cru in 1855. Its 31-hectare vineyard, comprising a single block, is planted exclusively with Sémillon on clay-sand and iron-rich soils resting on a limestone subsoil. The estate has been owned by the Moitry family since 2022 and is managed using biodynamic methods.
- Owner
- Patrimonia Développement (famille Moitry)
- Maître de chais
- Frédéric Nivelle
- Surface (ha)
- 31.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 25 000 à 30 000 bouteilles/an (premier vin, moyenne sur 20 ans)
Histoire du domaine
The name Climens appears in a deed dated 1547, when Guirault Roborel, the King’s procurator in Barsac, inherited the land. The Roborel family of Climens subsequently established the estate and developed the vineyard there for over two and a half centuries; the Carthusian monastery was built in the 17th century. Following the French Revolution, the property was sold in 1802 to the Bordeaux wine merchant Jean Binaud. Under the leadership of Éloi Lacoste, Château Climens was classified as a Premier Cru in the 1855 classification. From 1885 onwards, it belonged to the Gounouilhou family for nearly a century. Lucien Lurton acquired the estate in 1971, and his daughter Bérénice Lurton took over its management in 1992. In 2010, Bérénice Lurton and technical director Frédéric Nivelle began converting the vineyard to biodynamic farming. The estate produced its first dry white wine in 2018. In 2022, the Moitry family took over from the Lurton family through Patrimonia Développement. Frédéric Nivelle, technical director since 1998, remains in charge of the vineyard and the winery.
