1996 Château Pape Clément

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Thursday, November 23, 2017 - Last tasted a year ago, the wine is now fully mature. It is a classic left bank Bordeaux with a deep nose of blackcurrent and ripe plum combined with tobacco and leather. The tannins are strong on the palate but well balanced and with good depth, and completed with a decent finish. It is a very masculine wine and probably not to everyone's taste but typical of some of the older Bordeaux left bankers. Whether the tannin further sweetens and it can reach the heights of the 1990 is open to debate, but do decant.

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