Best Sauternes and Barsac 2022 wines tasted en primeur

Gorgeous nose, really full and exotic, thrilling and vibrant. Vanilla, cream, ginger and salted caramel. Sweet and unctuous, sugary and full, really generous expression...

Clean and crisp, a lovely bite to this instantly which gives intensity and excitement. Keeps a cool sleek frame but has some tense sherbet type...

Thrilling and fun, bright and forward on the palate with lemon, lime, orange and pineapple - gorgeous tropical elements with a weighty, thick, unctuous texture....

Gorgeous richness and juiciness, a compelling density and complexity, well constructed and poised. Refined but powerful, I love the intensity, really combines fruit fleshiness and...

This 'from scratch' winery was founded in 2005 by former fisherman Daniel and his wife Valérie Alibrand. It's a small, 8ha artisanal low-intervention estate known...

Succulent and so appealing straight away, clean and precise, a lovely sleek frame with cool freshness. Not so sweet or massy and fleshly as some,...

Unctuous and lively, a nice brightness and energy with focus and a taught expression that is well defined and detailed. Appealing weight with caramelised honeyed...

Supple and juicy, bright and clean - this lacks a little unctuousness and flesh, but it's focussed while having a long length. Sherbet lemon and...

Creamy, rich, juicy and vibrant, this has excellent energy to it, clean and well worked with citrus fruit, spiced honey touches, bitter orange rind, pineapple...

<p>Orange and fresh lemon zest on the nose. Energetic, cool, creamy, zesty, open and lifted! A lovely intensity straight away with precision, focus and real...

Bight and fun, a lovely easy, clean and sleek texture, quite straight with focus and a sense of cool freshness on the palate with some...

Lively and energetic, a lifted expression with bitter orange peel countering the pineapple and mango fruit. Lovely complexity and construction, an unctuous almost sherbet mid...

Creamy and round, a lovely texture and weight on the palate - sweet and sugary, unctuous, rich and forward but this has elegance too, keeping...

Bright lemon, floral orange blossom and fleshy peach - juicy with caramelised edges and soft touches of salty minerality that gives a nice contrast. Unctuous...

Juicy and vibrant a lovely thrill to this, bright and shining, direct and focussed with some bitter touches around the edges - gorgeous orange rind,...

Sweet and juicy, quite tight still, a little tense, lacking some fleshiness and oomph but really cool and direct with flinty stones and iced pineapple,...