Château Pape-Clément rouge, CC Pessac-Léognan - 2005

Viticulture

Gently sloping, superb, Pyrenean gravel with medium or small stones on a limestone subsoil where very ferruginous water flows. However, nothing explains the very specific bouquet (smoky and tarry) of this wine, which it shares with Haut-Brion despite the difference in the origin of their gravel, except perhaps the nature of the skins of certain vines resulting from a slow local selection.