2020, Château Pape Clement Rouge, Grands Crus Classés de GravesBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot. The 2020 Pape Clment Rouge has an incredibly intense bouquet with multi layered blackberry and bilberry fruit, cedar and black olive compote aromas. Hints of vanilla pod and black truffle emerge with time. The palate is medium bodied with firm and quite assertive tannins that frame a huge weight of fruit (more than Domaine de Chevalier or Malartic Lagravire tasted alongside). It's not a subtle

8% Sémillon and 25

dramatic wine bursting with aromas of blackberries

Hints of red berry fruit

ample and fleshy

Gorgeous eucalyptus freshness on the nose alongside fragranced blackcurrant notes

2008: A late ripening year and rain at harvest meant sorting was essential

Made with 80% new oak

This is a wine in transformation and a wine to watch

black raspberries and warm plums plus nuances of potpourri

intense finish

92-94 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

The extraction