2010 Pape Clement
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Tasting Notes
A lot of wood and dark liqueur fruit on the nose. A very liqueur style, chewy and very full-bodied. A bit too prune for my taste but attarctive if this is your kind of wine. Certainly well made in a late harvest style.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
More reviews and scores
The deep ruby purple 2010 Pape Clement exhibits aromas of blackberries, plums, cassis, cedar and spices, followed up on both nose and palate by a gorgeous spectrum of flavours, with cashmere-like thick tannins and a long finish. I am often not a fan of Pape Clement, finding it too polished and slick, but here is a lovely textured wine with plenty of substance and charm, coming across as rich without being heavy. In short, this is a gorgeous wine, the most impressive vintage of Pape Clement I have tasted, and a wine that will easily keep for a decade or more.asianpalate.com
Pape Clement - Black in color, smoke, truffle, burning wood, jammy blackberry, earth and hot stone aromas are found with ease. This concentrated, powerful wine is filled with sweet, ripe, boysenberry, cassis and licorice. Polished, supple and opulent in texture, the wine ends with a long pure fresh, blackberry liqueur sensation. Some tasters will appreciate that this is toned down from the full throttle 2005. winecellarinsider.com
Nocturnal magenta passes through verspertine tones to a cardinal purple edge. Resistant aromas give little hint of the rich, full, dark-fruited, herbaceous, spice and tobacco flavours, under well-balanced fruit and tannins I tasted the 2009 a year ago. It has similar withdrawn intensity and wonderful brooding under the surface, a similar richness and body, with dark fruits and spices. Though both may be good to drink in 10-15 years, both will be at their best in 35-40 years. The 2010 will be a fitting celebration of this early fourteenth-century pontifical foundation, with what may be its best of the decade.
About the producer
Among the oldest estates in Bordeaux, Ch. Pape Clément has been guided into the modern era by Bernard Magrez, who has managed the estate since 1985. It makes some of the best reds in the region.