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JAMES SUCKLING: "This is a very structured 2022 with powerful tannins that run the length of the wine. Yet it’s perfumed and fresh with flowers and subtle undertones of stone. Pure. It’s full but not heavy with backbone and structure. Lots of crushed stone and currants. One of the most transparent you Pape’s I have tasted. 60% merlot and 40% cabernet sauvignon."
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JEB DUNNUCK: "A full-bodied, concentrated, awesome Pessac, the 2022 Château Pape Clément offers up loads of spiced red and black fruits, some leafy tobacco, gravelly earth, and graphite aromatics, building, ripe, polished tannins, and a stacked mid-palate. Beautifully done, with remarkable purity and a great finish, it's going to rank with the crème de la crème of the vintage and is well worth seeking out."
19
VINUM: "Noch nie eine so unerhört fruchtigen und doch extraktreichen Pape verkostet, Tannin allererster Güte, grosse Saftigkeit und Länge; zeigt Wucht und besitzt doch verblüffende Harmonie; ein Jahrhundertwein von bestürzender Präzision und Klasse."
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98
THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Dark, almost opaque in color, the wine grabs your attention with its showy display of flowers, cinnamon, chocolate, spice, tobacco, blackberries, and black cherries in the perfume. On the palate, the wine is rich, lush, sweet, deep, and intense. There is a wealth of flavor in the black cherries, white pepper, dark chocolate, and espresso on the palate. The endnote sticks for almost 50 seconds, delivering a peppery, orange rind, refreshing note in the finish. The wine blends 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14% ABV, 3.6 pH. The harvest took place September 7 - September 28. Yields were 35 hectoliters per hectare. Drink from 2026-2055."
96
FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe. zarte Randaufhellung. Zart nach Nugat und schwarzen Waldbeeren, Pflaumen sind unterlegt, feine Edelholznuancen, kandierte Orangenzesten unterlegt. Saftig, reife Herzkirschen, dunkle Beeren, frischer Säurebogen, mineralisch und anhaftend, elegant und mit Länge ausgestattet, vielversprechendes Potenzial."
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LISA PERROTTI-BROWN: „The 2022 Pape Clement is composed of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon with a yield of 35 hl/ha. Deep garnet-purple in color, it is a little subdued to begin, soon unfurling to offer evocative notes of baked blackberries, boysenberry preserves, and plum pudding, followed by wafts of cassis, violets, cedar chest, and cumin seed. The full-bodied palate is rich and impactful, delivering layers of bright black cherries and baking spices with a lively backbone and fine-grained tannins, finishing long and energetic. pH 3.70."
18,5
WEINWISSER: "60 % Merlot, 40 % Cabernet Sauvignon. Exotisches Bouquet, dunkles Edelholz, Nougatpraline, Schattenmorellensaft, dominikanischer Tabak und ein satter Strauß Veilchen. Am molligen Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, berauschender Extraktfülle, engmaschigem Tanninkorsett und bulligem Körper. Im konzentrierten Finale schwarzbeerige Konturen, Wacholder, Olivenpaste und mehlige Adstringenz. 2030 – 2050."
95
DECANTER: "Focussed and charming, good weight and depth, the tannins come into play almost straight away coating the mouth in fine but plump, fleshy black fruit with cool blue fruit touches and high acidity giving a different, lighter nuance. Well made, with good definition. Not as lively as some, but has supreme complexity and shine, everything feels well worked with touches of oak, liquorice spice and clove that dot the palate. Strong and serious but confident and controlled. A thoroughbred. Tightly knitted but still showing glamour. Harvest 7-27 September. Bee friendly, HVE3 certified. Celebrating 770 vintages in 2022. Michel Rolland and Julien Viaud consultants."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Revealing aromas of blueberries, cassis, spring flowers and toasty new oak, the 2022 Pape Clément is full-bodied, broad and textural, with a rich, layered core of super-ripe fruit framed by liberally extracted tannins that assert themselves on the firm, lavishly oaky finish. This is a flamboyant, unabashedly modern-styled Pape Clément that will need several years in the cellar to blossom. It's a blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon."
