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Chateau Pape Clement - 2005

Blend

100% Red Bordeaux Blend

Country

France

Region

Bordeaux

Appellation

Pessac-Leognan

New

12 / 750mL
Wood Case

1720-05

Product Ratings

Wine Advocate 99pt

Owned by Bernard Magrez, this great terroir a few miles from Haut Brion and La Mission Haut Brion has produced one of the superstars of the vintage. A blend of 55% Merlot and 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, Pape Clement’s 2005 has an opaque purple color and smoky barbecue and chocolaty notes intermixed with cassis and blackberries. There is also some underlying minerality in this full-bodied, super-concentrated wine, which has wonderfully sweet, well-integrated tannins. This majestic, multidimensional wines is one of the great, great wines of the vintage. It should drink well for at least another 25 years.

by Wine Advocate, 2015

Wine Spectator 96pt

Dark in color, offering wonderful aromas of licorice, berry, fresh tobacco and currant, with Indian spices. Complex and full-bodied, with supersilky tannins that caress every inch of the palate. Long and satisfying. A joy to taste this young wine.

by Wine Spectator, 2008

MISC

Location: Pessac.
Area: 57 hectares.
Grape varieties: 46% Cabernet Sauvignon, 49% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot
Density: 7700 vines per hectare.
Soil: clayey layer of the Pyrenees from the end of Pliocene and Quaternary eras. Viticulture: Bordeaux method, integrated culture. Stripping and thinning in several passages. Grassing controlled and in part, to plow horse.
Yield: 35 hl/ha

Vinification

Hand harvested in small crates with a first sorting in the vineyard. Put into wooden vats by gravity. Maceration at low temperature. Farmed for 18 months in French oak barrels.

The Chateau

The Chateau Pape Clement is one of the oldest Grands Crus de Bordeaux. The vineyard was established in Thirteenth century by Bertrand de Goth, the youngest of a noble family from the Bordeaux region. The Chateau takes its name from The Archbishop of Bordeaux, Bertrand de Goth who became Pope in 1305 under the name of Clement V. Then the vineyard belonged to the Archbishop of Bordeaux until the French Revolution. This area boasts of producing wine on the same land for 7 centuries.