Community Tasting Notes 13

• Cailles wrote: 95 points

  December 18, 2022 - 16x Right Bank Bordeaux 1998: Three white Bordeauxs from the 2019 vintage. All three showed well. The Domaine de Chevalier (94pts) convinced with strong, bright fruit core but was missing a bit of harmony with the high acidity not being balanced by enough textural softness. The Cos (92pts) had that balance but not the same level of depth and length. And the (consensus winner) Pape Clement (95pts) was the marriage of both with textural softness, elegance, paired with superb freshness and aromatic depth. As I’m always worried how white Bordeauxs will develop in the age of premox, there’s no time to waste to pop a cork on any of these three wines.
  
  TN: Expressive nose and palate with fine fresh fruit, citrus, gooseberry, some herbs, minty notes, all wrapped around a salty minerality backbone. This has good depth and mid palate weight. Very round and elegant with a creamy texture mixed with a high, well-rounded acidity. Harmonious from start to the slightly expanding, medium+ long finish which display the fruit components mixed with a beautiful saltiness. This drinks very well today.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no extensive decanting needed.

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• pavel_p Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 3, 2022 - UGC 2019 Singapore (Singapore): Grassy and fresh but not particularly complex. Clearly a notch below SHL and DdC in 2019.

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• sirpat00 wrote: 94 points

  November 26, 2022 - Bordeaux Right Bank 1998 tasting (Essenz (Brugg)): Bordeaux right bank 1998 tasting. All wines were served single blind and were decanted several hours. The sample showed i/ generally healthy and structured wines, still quite primary with further aging potential; ii/ the overall performance was below expectations considering the repute of the vintage for the right bank (although this may be due to the very long aeration), iii/ top wine for me were 1. Valandrau (95), 2. L’Evangile (95), 3. Angélus (94) while for the group the ranking was 1. Angélus (94.9), 2. Valandrau (94.4), 3. Cheval Blanc (94.0). Complete list including group scores included in the tasting story.
  
  Tasting note:
  Prélude to the tasting. Salty minerality surrounds gooseberry fruit with distinctly citric features. Palate shows good tension, comes across as round and elegant.

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• Ben Christiansen wrote:

  July 18, 2022 - Now that has complexity - Herb and SB smell and allot going on. And then rich and stylish on the palate. So now what is the price?

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• Roger Patterson wrote: 91 points

  June 30, 2022 - Classic and elegant. At LA UGC.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type White
• Producer Château Pape Clément
• Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
• Designation Blanc
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Graves
• Appellation Pessac-Léognan
• UPC Code 3760020786465

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• Pending Delivery 11 (3%)
• In Cellars 303 (89%)
• Consumed 25 (7%)

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