The 1989 Pape Clément is showing beautifully, offering up aromas of plummy red fruits mingled with cigar box, sweet spices and hints of loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with ripe acids and powdery tannins underpinning its expansive core of fruit. This is drinking very well today.
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Mature but not yet over the hill. Needed a good 2 hours to fully open. Dark fruits developed after starting out as tart dried cherries. Now, black currant, ripe plum, some jam nicely meld with the Smokey gravel, black licorice, toast, and hot asphalt. The palate is rich smooth and very well balanced with the exception of some alcohol heat that drives the Smokey dark fruited long finish. I picture the 2003 evolving akin to the 89, although I suspect there is more merlot in the 03, no? 92-93
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Unbelievably young still. Needs a few minutes to adapt and breath but then, what a treat. Great with meats or spicy pasta. Today is Covid-19 lucky gnocchi day! Spices, black currant and leather jump at you. Complexity in crescendo as it mixes with food. Fantastic wine, it’ll last like this for another 10 years. Yum!
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3/26/2023 - k H i L o Likes this wine: 94 Points
Décret officiel du jour : Pape-Clément 89 est éternel ! Qu'est-ce que j'aime ce vin !
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9/18/2021 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 93 Points
The 1989 Pape Clément is showing beautifully, offering up aromas of plummy red fruits mingled with cigar box, sweet spices and hints of loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with ripe acids and powdery tannins underpinning its expansive core of fruit. This is drinking very well today.
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11/29/2020 - jordanj Likes this wine: 92 Points
Mature but not yet over the hill. Needed a good 2 hours to fully open. Dark fruits developed after starting out as tart dried cherries. Now, black currant, ripe plum, some jam nicely meld with the Smokey gravel, black licorice, toast, and hot asphalt. The palate is rich smooth and very well balanced with the exception of some alcohol heat that drives the Smokey dark fruited long finish. I picture the 2003 evolving akin to the 89, although I suspect there is more merlot in the 03, no? 92-93
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3/29/2020 - joseduca Likes this wine: 96 Points
Unbelievably young still. Needs a few minutes to adapt and breath but then, what a treat.
Great with meats or spicy pasta. Today is Covid-19 lucky gnocchi day!
Spices, black currant and leather jump at you. Complexity in crescendo as it mixes with food. Fantastic wine, it’ll last like this for another 10 years. Yum!
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2/3/2020 - k H i L o Likes this wine: 94 Points
Toujours aussi princier !
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