Robert Parker
This gorgeous, fully mature, complex Pape Clement exhibits notes of smoky tobacco, earth, loamy soil, forest floor, black cherries, plums and cassis. Medium to full-bodied, fresh and lively, the acids have fallen away and the tannins have melted into an opulent, fleshy, classic Bordeaux. Consume it over the next 10-15 years. Bravo!
Stephen Tanzer
Ruby-red. Very ripe aromas of kirsch, dark berries, gravel, espresso, minerals and exotic woodsmoke. Dense, lush and sweet, with layered flavors of dark raspberry, minerals and gravel, with a recurring note of woodsmoke. Finishes very broad and long. An excellent, opulent 2003, impressively ripe and rich but not over the top.