1988 | Chateau Pape Clement | Pessac-Leognan

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Red Wine: 1988 | Chateau Pape Clement | Pessac-Leognan

Chteau Pape Clement was acquired by Bernard Magrez in 1983. Here is a luxurious red hailing from the Pessac-Lognan appellation from the 1988 vintage. Beautifully mature, this is a wine to handle delicately.

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Producer: Chateau Pape Clement

Ratings: WA | 92 WS | 94

Vintage: 1988

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

Chteau Pape Clement was acquired by Bernard Magrez in 1983. Here is a luxurious red hailing from the Pessac-Lognan appellation from the 1988 vintage. Beautifully mature, this is a wine to handle delicately. Expect an earthy, spiced profile with notes of cassis and smoke.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: A gorgeous wine and one of the vintages most successful efforts, Pape Clement’s dark plum/purple-colored 1988 has a nose of roasted herbs, sweet tobacco smoke, red as well as black currants, and scorched earth. The wine still has a deep ruby color, with only a hint of lightening at the rim. The wine is medium to full-bodied, with sweet but high tannin and a lot of smoke, earth, and asphalt notes.

• Wine Spectator: Aromas of iodine, pipe tobacco and red fruits follow through to a full body, with soft and silky tannins and intense flavors of tar, berry, and licorice. Beautiful texture too. Long and seductive. Really excellent.

Producer Information

Chteau Pape Clment is a grand cru wine estate in the Pessac-Lognan appellation in Graves. It is one of the oldest estates in Bordeaux, dating back to the 13th Century, and is now just 15 minutes from the center of Bordeaux city, and surrounded by urban development.The Pape Clment vineyard is situated on a mix of gravel-sand and clay-limestone soils, with a chalky subsoil rich in iron. This is a good terroir for both Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.Of the 30 hectares (74 acres) of red grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon accounts for about 60 percent, and Merlot around 40 percent. There are also tiny amounts of Petit Verdot and, Cabernet Franc.There are 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) planted to white grapes. This comprises around 45 percent each of Semillon, and Sauvignon Blanc, and 10 percent Muscadelle.Chteau Pape Clment produces three pairs of red and white wines, including the grands vins. Le Clmentin du Pape Clment is the second label.