The Château Clement Saint-Jean of Médoc of Bordeaux

Château Clement Saint-Jean
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 1009 of the estates of Bordeaux.
It is located in Médoc in the region of Bordeaux

The Château Clement Saint-Jean is one of the best wineries to follow in Médoc.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Médoc to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Clement Saint-Jean wines

Looking for the best Château Clement Saint-Jean wines in Médoc among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Clement Saint-Jean wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Clement Saint-Jean wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Château Clement Saint-Jean

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Clement Saint-Jean

How Château Clement Saint-Jean wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pork tongue with tomato sauce and pickles, lamb breast with onions and tomato sauce or rabbit with cider and prunes.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Clement Saint-Jean

On the nose the red wine of Château Clement Saint-Jean. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, chocolate or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of spices, oak or vegetal. In the mouth the red wine of Château Clement Saint-Jean. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Clement Saint-Jean

  • 2007With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Clement Saint-Jean.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc

Discovering the wine region of Médoc

Bordeaux's Médoc is an area of coastal lagoons, sand dunes and pine forests located on the 45th parallel. It is also a global wine powerhouse, and home to four of the world's most prestigious wine villages: Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Julien. The estates located in these villages produce some of the most expensive bottles in the world. The region has also provided all but one of the châteaux included in the official 1855 Bordeaux wine classification (Haut-Brion).

The Médoc vineyards cover about 16,000 hectares, including the various small appellations. Approximately 5500 hectares of vines are classified for the production of AOC/AOP Médoc wines. Wedged between the Atlantic coast and the wide Gironde estuary, the Médoc is in fact a peninsula. It stretches 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the northwest, from the city of Bordeaux to the Pointe de Grave.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Clement Saint-Jean

Planning a wine route in the of Médoc? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Clement Saint-Jean.

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

News about Château Clement Saint-Jean and wines from the region

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Penfolds doubles production capacity in France following Château Lanessan acquisition

The deal includes 390ha of land in the Haut-Médoc appellation, of which 80ha is currently planted with Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot, along with the winery. It will allow TWE’s flagship brand, Penfolds, to increase its focus on creating blends featuring grapes from Bordeaux and Barossa. Earlier this year, chief winemaker Peter Gago unveiled Penfolds II, a Cabernet-Shiraz-Merlot blend created in partnership with Dourthe Bordeaux. The wine featured 71% grapes grown in Bordeaux and 29 ...

Domaines Henri Martin – the spirit of family and terroir

The story of Domaines Henri Martin is that of a family business founded on a shared commitment, across generations, to produce wines with character, true to the quality of the exceptional vineyards and the history of the iconic estates they hail from. Descending from a family rooted in the Médoc for more than 300 years, Henri Martin was well aware of the potential of some of the region’s finest parcels. Motivated by this belief and by a vibrant entrepreneurial spirit, he accomplished something q ...

The word of the wine: Petiole

Stem of the leaf, connecting the leaf blade to the stem.