Château Pape-Clément

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The Château Pape-Clément is a very well-known winery in Pessac on the outskirts of Bordeaux . The winery belongs to the Pessac-Léognan appellation , which also includes all the wineries located in the immediate vicinity of Bordeaux, as well as the well-known estates Château Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion .

Pape-Clément is not classified as Premier Cru , but many wine connoisseurs consider the wine to be just as high quality. The estate is older than the Haut Brion estates: it dates back to the Middle Ages and is considered the oldest continuously managed winery in the entire Bordeaux region. It has 30 hectares of vineyards for red wine (60% Cabernet Sauvignon , 40% Merlot ) and 2.5 hectares for white wine (45% Sauvignon Blanc , 45% Sémillon , 10% Muscadelle ). 62% of the vines are older than 25 years, many of them older than 45 years. The younger vines are in theSecond wine , Le Clémentin du Château Pape-Clément, processed. Depending on the vintage, around 25–35% of the harvest is marketed as a second wine.

The estate relies on the services of the winemaker Michel Rolland .

history

Centuries ago, Château Pape-Clément was bequeathed to the son Bertrand de Got, who became a bishop , later became cardinal in Rome and was elected Pope Clement , in an old Bordeaux winemaking family . The estate has been named after him since 1305 . Clement subsequently left the estate to the diocese of Bordeaux, which turned it into a model estate.

In 1791 all of the church's properties were confiscated and sold due to the French Revolution . The banker Charles Peixotto bought the property. As a result, Château Pape-Clément changed hands frequently and flourished particularly under Jean-Baptiste Clerc. He enlarged the estate considerably and built the château.

After the phylloxera disaster is and the new fungal diseases such as True and False mildew Bordeaux was hit in 1937 by severe hailstorms. Much of the vineyards were destroyed. After the extremely bad vintages of 1935 and 1936, this meant the end of many wineries in the region. Château Pape-Clément was bought by Paul Montagne in 1939. With the help of the oenologist Émile Peynaud , he rebuilt the winery. His quality efforts were rewarded in 1959 when his estate was named Cru Classé of the Graves area. Today, Château Pape-Clément is managed by Bernard Magrez and is the flagship of the Magrez group.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. J. Suckling: Consulting enologist Michel Rolland makes some of the world's best red wines . Wine Spectator, June 30, 2006

Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  N , 0 ° 38 ′ 49 ″  W.