2014 Pape Clement Rouge 75CL

Pessac-Leognan

₱9,595
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Other available vintages:
2008 2011

TASTING NOTES:

Wine Rating: RP 94 points
Drink by: 2020 - 2050

The 2014 Pape Clement has quite a potent bouquet with lavish red cherry, kirsch, iodine, and pastille-like scents, the oak probably needing another couple of years to fully integrate.
The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, a fine line of acidity, quite refined and focused with appreciable tension towards the finish that comes laden with succulent, tobacco-infused blackberry fruit. This is a sumptuous and yet refined Pape-Clement that demonstrated the most matière or substance out of all the Pessac-Léognan 2014s that I tasted, except for the Haut-Brion. It is certainly a wine destined for a long future.

Château Pape Clément is one of the oldest properties in Bordeaux. The vineyard was first planted in the 13th century by Bertrand de Goth, the youngest son of a noble family from Bordeaux. He was the Archbishop of Bordeaux and became Pope in 1305, then took the name of Clément V.

The vineyard was run by the Bordeaux Archbishopry until the French Revolution. The estate can take pride in the production of wine in the same vineyards for over 7 centuries.