Below are my tasting notes for 35 sweet whites, mainly Sauternes-Barsac. We have called them Barsac only if they use that appellation on their labels. Most of these wines are a bit disappointing, not always wonderfully clean and healthy, but the best are stupendous.
Background comments appear in italics.
As usual, the wines are listed alphabetically within appellation, ignoring words such as le, la, les, de, du, des, Château and Clos.
+ means that I expect the wine to gain stature with time
- means the opposite
? means I am much less sure than usual of my...