- Home/
- Wine Directory/
- France/
- Bordeaux/
- 2017 Chateau Pape Clement, Blanc, Pessac-Leognan
$PCMT
2017 Chateau Pape Clement, Blanc, Pessac-Leognan
Bottle size (ML)
Current price
Start Your Wine Collection with 2017 Chateau Pape Clement, Blanc, Pessac-Leognan
Begin your portfolio with a prestigious wine that has a history of growth.- Enjoy fully managed, secure storage facilities with insurance coverage.
- Get expert advice on when to hold and when to sell.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
Aromas of pineapple, peaches and apple pie with stone. Deep and intense, yet always subtle in the nose. Full-bodied, layered and very flavorful. However, it stays focused and precise in the mouth and at the finish. Serious length. Still needs three or four years to come together. Better after 2022.
Tim Atkin
Warm with the beginnings of oak aromas. Rich green fruit scents, appealing and inviting. Rich and rounded, with great extract and depth of yellow plum and greengage fruit, some pastry hints. Rich and complex finish. Good.
Wine Enthusiast
Taut, steely and textured, this is a cool, crisp wine. With acidity and minerality all in play, the wine’s long-term future is balanced by its immediate fruitiness. Drink this well-structured wine from 2021.
Jeb Dunnuck
The 2017 Chateau Pape Clement Blanc showed spectacularly well and is one of the wines (if not the wine) of the vintage. Based on 55 Sauvignon and 45 Semillon aged 14 months in barrel, it offers powerful notes of honeyed melon, tart pineapple, green figs, and floral notes as well as a terrific sense of minerality. Concentrated, medium to full-bodied, with rocking levels of acidity, give it 2-4 years and enjoy over the following 15 years or more.
Wine Spectator
This features a beeswax frame around a large-scaled core of wet straw, creamed white peach, yellow apple and fennel flavors, while a racy quinine thread runs underneath. Shows a flash of brioche on the finish, with the beeswax element lingering. Needs a little time, but this is distinctive and beautiful. Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon, Sauvignon Gris and Muscadelle. Best from 2021 through 2029.
Decanter
This has a tautness and an intensity to it, with extremely well placed citrus and white peach flesh, a lick of fresh slate and some wet stones. Good quality.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The Pape Clement 2017 Blanc (composed of 55 Sauvignon Blanc and 45 Sémillon) has loads of exotic fruit—pineapple, green guava and passion fruit—with crushed stones, fragrant herbs and mandarin peel hints. The palate is medium-bodied, intense and racy with a long, pure, exotic fruit finish. Rating: 94+