Chateau Pape Clement 2012

We tasted this bottle the other night at supper with friends. One of them had fallen in love with this estate and had bought a few cases (of various different vintages, I suppose), and proceeded to share this bottle with us. Now I had blogged about this estate before and also visited it last May on our first visit to Bordeaux, right after the Lourdes pilgrimage. We liked the 2004 vintage and bought a bottle.

AS for this 2012, the wine was a nice deep ruby with a sweet acid fruity nose. The palate was sweet woody and plummy, seasoned with a good smattering of tannins, well supported by an acid tannic backbone.