The 2006 Château Pape Clément Blanc is one of the stars of the white wine vintage in the Graves, as the wine offers up a gorgeous and beautifully balanced nose of figs, lime zest, freshly-cut grass, incipient notes of...
The 2006 Château Pape Clément Blanc is one of the stars of the white wine vintage in the Graves, as the wine offers up a gorgeous and beautifully balanced nose of figs, lime zest, freshly-cut grass, incipient notes of petrol, beautiful chalky soil tones, beeswax and vanillin oak. This wine was aged in one hundred percent new oak, but shows no signs of over-oaking, as the wood is beautifully integrated into the body of the wine. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, crisp and racy, with lovely mid-palate depth, impressive complexity and great length and grip on the poised and classy finish. As superb as this wine is, I would love to see it with half as much new oak, as I think the combination would allow an even more profound expression of its underlying terroir. But this is a very high class example of the vintage. (Drink between 2012-2030)