2003 Château Pavie
Community Tasting Note
soyhead Likes this wine:
Saturday, February 8, 2014 - popped and decanted for 30 min
nose - boysenberry, blueberry, mint, cocoa. fragrantly full and sweet
mouth - absolutely exploding with luscious and mouthwatering dark fruit, wow!, tastes amazing, really very nicely balanced, with great minerality, and not overdone. Has lovely red licorice/liqueur quality on the midpalate with a long and round tannic finish. Much riper in style than the '01 Pavie consumed several days prior. I would say, drink on its own, without food, and savour every sip. Perhaps that might sum up the brouhaha ten years out. I never tasted this in its youth, so I dont know what else to say about the controversy surrounding this. ' Port is best from the Douro not St.Emilion' actually raises an interesting question. Is wine about the pleasure that it brings or is it supposed to be true to some other ideal in addition (terroir? tradition?). While I agree this is not a very typical bottle of Bordeaux, or St. Emilion for that matter, I really dig it. If I had tasted this blind and had to guess its origin, I might suspect it to be a mid-aged high end Napa cabernet with a unusual smack of minerality.
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