Why this vintage
- 98/100 from James Sucklingand 3 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2020 vintage in Pessac-LéognanAn early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
Critic scores
- James Suckling98
- Vinous98
- Wine Enthusiast95
- Decanter94
The 2020 vintage in Pessac-Léognan
Vintage benchmark: 94/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, hot year, with a harvest under pressure: a dense, juicy classic, ripe without heaviness.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pessac-Léognan. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 50 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 50 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 52 % merlot, 45 % cabernet sauvignon, 2 % petit verdot, 1 % cabernet franc — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 28 yrsVine age
Winemaking
First sorting in the vineyard, manual harvest in crates. Optical and tables sorting. Transfer into 30-70 hl wooden vats by gravity flow. Low temperature pre-fermentation maceration 8°C. Manual punching down. 30 days maceration. The wine is run off into French oak barrels by gravity flow. Malolactic fermentation in oak barrels. Harvest dates: from 10th to 30th September 2020.
Ageing
Aging for 18 months in oak barrels.
Terroir
Clay gravels dating back to the end of the Pliocene epoch and the Quaternary period.
An offer on Château Pape Clément 2020
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Texts and documents 2020
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.