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2008 Chateau Pape Clement Cru Classe, Pessac-Leognan
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2008 Chateau Pape Clement Cru Classe, Pessac-Leognan
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Critics Scores
Wine Enthusiast
This is an impressive wine, packed with toast, yellow fruits, spice and richness. There is structure as well, the fruit layered with wood. Great balance and great potential.
Decanter
This is going to need another few years to soften, and the vanillin expression of oak is overpowering at this stage, even after ten years in bottle. It’s an accomplished wine, well structured and with personality, and clear depth of flavour. But this is the first wine in the 2008 lineup where there is a touch of discernible heat through the palate, giving crème de cassis flavours rather than juicy blackcurrant.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
One of the top successes of the vintage, this blend of 50 Cabernet Sauvignon, 45 Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot was harvested between October 8 and 24. The late harvest ensured perfect ripeness as evidenced by the sweet bouquet of black cherries, lead pencil shavings, cassis and subtle barbecue smoke. Well-balanced with good acidity, ripe tannins, medium to full body and a layered mouthfeel, this excellent 2008 can be drunk now and over the next 15+ years. 2nd May 2011