Community Tasting Note

pavel_p wrote:

Sunday, April 29, 2018 - Reading some of the recent comments in French, am wondering if they had the same wine....
While also a second wine produced by Pape Clement, I understand that les Cles de Pape Clement has a slightly more Merlot heavy blend than Clementin (just like Smith Haut Lafitte produces two different second wines with "Les Hauts de Smith" and "Le Petit Haut Lafitte"). The 2009 Les Cles de Pape Clement is 46% Merlot, 44% Cab Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot and 3% Cab Franc, 14% alc.
Still a fairly dark garnet in the glass, the Merlot is clearly showing with round and rich dark (and overripe) fruit, still some oak on the nose that has not fully integrated, a fruit forward wine with fine and almost fully integrated tannins. Not a lot of structure. Short to medium finish. Not bad but not great either. Drink over the next 5 years. 88-89

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