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2018 Château Pape Clément, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Ready - youthful
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
96-98/100
Product: 20181013690
2018 Château Pape Clément, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

Description

The team here is experimenting with different sizes and constructions of maturation vessels. This year 10% of the wine was aged in 500-litre foudres, but the wine remains seductively lush and smoky. The wine is strong and rich, and there is a lot of tannin, but the mid-palate is sensuous and velvety after malolactic in new oak. Drink 2023-2032.

Blend: 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2018
Maturity Ready - youthful
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Pape Clément

Critics reviews

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 96-98/100
This wine is a blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc to be aged for approximately 18 months in oak barriques, 60% new. Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2018 Pape Clement is a little closed, slowly unfurling to reveal fragrant earth, crushed rocks, iron ore and tobacco notions over a core of crushed red and black currants plus kirsch, red roses and Ceylon tea. Full-bodied and wonderfully vivacious, it offers a solid line of firm and fine-grained tannins and amazing freshness, finishing very long and mineral laced.Lisa Perrotti-Brown - 23/04/2019
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, (Apr 2019)

About this wine

Chateau Pape Clement

Château Pape Clément is a Cru Classé Graves property that has one of the oldest documented histories of any Bordeaux vineyard, having been planted in 1300 by Bernard de Groth, the future Pope Clément V. In 1939 the estate was bought by the Montagne family and is now owned and run by Léo Montagne. Pape Clément is located in the Bordeaux suburb of Pessac and consists of a chai and 32 hectares of vineyards, planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (60%), Merlot (40%) and small amounts of Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle. The quality of the wines at Pape Clément slipped in the 1960s and 70s, largely because of under-investment. Bernard Magrez was appointed as general manager in 1985 and he turned Pape Clément's fortunes around. He introduced more rigorous selection in the vineyards, as well as installing stainless steel vats and raising the percentage of new oak casks used in the maturation process. Pape Clément now produces one of the finest clarets in Pessac-Léognan.
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