Pape Clement

Specification

Producer

Pape Clement

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux

Classification

Classified Growth of Graves

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Vintage

1987

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

PAPCLE871X75

About this wine

The red Pape Clément is ripe and generous, with dark fruit, a smoky Graves character and plenty of oak when young. It drinks well from around ten years and good vintages age for twenty or more.

About Pape Clement

Château Pape Clément in Pessac is one of the oldest wine estates in Bordeaux. It takes its name from Bertrand de Goth, Archbishop of Bordeaux, who owned the vineyard before becoming Pope Clement V in 1305. Today it belongs to Bernard Magrez.

It is a Classified Growth of Graves, making a rich, modern red and a small amount of white.