53% Merlot, 46% Cabernet Sauvignon, 1% Cabernet Franc & Petit Verdot

Neal Martin: 95, James Suckling: 99

Neal Martin: The 2015 Pape-Cl̩ement has a fragrant bouquet with quite plush, generous but well defined red berry fruit mixed with rose petal and incense, smoke and cigar humidor following later. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannin, crisp and focused. A seam of graphite emerges toward the finish. This is linear and correct at the moment. This should develop into a very fine Pessac-L̩eognan, one full of breed and sophistication. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.