At thirty-four years, the fill level, label, foil and importantly the cork, were all in pristine condition - the cork showing slight saturation but still integrally intact. This was past its apex but pleasant and still within its acceptable drinking window, but at a point where it will no doubt diminish from age here forward.
Garnet colored, medium to full-bodied, balanced, smooth but relatively simple blackberry fruits with notes of mushroom, tobacco, dusty rose and hints of milk chocolate with soft fine tannins and elegant texture on the moderate finish.
Not fair to this wine - we drank it alongside a 1970 Cheval Blanc - this was the backup wine to a flawed 70 Margaux, which in retrospect makes no sense whatsoever. But I guess I just assumed I wouldn't need a backup. Anyway, while obviously a good wine - great material, good balance, great potential, this showed like an immature toddler next to the 70 Cheval.
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The Development of Older Bordeaux (Zoom!): 55% Merlot, 25% CF, 20% CS; the estate is trying to get back to that cepage nowadays, ie more Cabernet. Only 13% alcohol. Pavie has lots of limestone so tends towards austerity (hence latterly the winemaking has aimed to beef it up - but that hadn't started in 1989).
Red/brown, with clear rim. Gentle on the nose and the palate. Sandalwood, woody embers, damp earth and leather on the nose - like muddy rugby boots in a kit bag. A mouthwatering freshness - still quite a bite to it, and spicy too, but attractively so. Burned meat turning into char siu towards the finish. A little bit faded, but intriguing and very tasty.
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level lowermost neck, cork broke, colour black cherry red with distinct brown rim, nose rich, warm, deep and enveloping, lovely, palate also rich and relatively soft, long and balanced, enough tannin still at finish to keep it all very clean, overall shows its pedigree and class, very enjoyable indeed and disappeared at an alarming rate, at its peak or maybe even slightly over and on the very gentle downward slope, drink up (my last bottle), got better with time in the decanter / glass, nose developed more and more complexity, sad when it was finished
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St Emillion First Growths (Chez Bruce, London): Similar colour to the Angelus. Nose a little softer and dustier with a hint of Brett. More vibrant on the palate. Not quite as composed as previous bottle last year. A touch of spearmint and the fruit drying a little on the finish. ****
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Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Open and decanted 3+ hours before tasting. Mushroom and leather aromas i liked, but flavors also didn't show much fruit and came across as rather tired, even drying on finish. Not as interesting as another bottle from a different source last year.
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Served alongside Pavie 1970. This was open and decanted an hour+. Started off strong with ripe black fruit and plenty of sweet spice, emerging signs of of maturation. Didn't really evolve much over the course of the evening. Started much more interesting vs the 1970, but might have finished just behind.
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Magnifique bouteille qui m'a fait peur au début car bouchon très difficile à extraire. Il était en miette et j'ai du carafes. Le vin d'abord d'une couleur légère, tuilee, a pris de la profondeur avec le temps. Superbe vin à maturité, bien qu'il en ait encore sous la pédale. Cèdre, épices, cuir, mais avec encore du fruit. Le corps est d'une grande classe, à la fois fondu mais encore de la puissance. Superbe !
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chez Bruce, 1st growths, Saint Emilion. Surprisingly good and beyond expectations. Minerals and undergrowth, hints of soft, ripe fruits and a medium to long finish.
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St Emillion First Growths (Chez Bruce, London): A touch more mineral on the nose than the Angelus. Mid weight and nicely rounded. Fully mature and maybe even losing its fruit slightly. Damp earth. Fresh and quite minerally. Very drinkable. ****
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good level (lowermost neck) and excellent cork, kept in air-conditioned cellar since purchase at release, some brown at rim, fine, classy nose, palate has class, strength, lovely fine fruit flavour, great length and balance, so good that stopped drinking it with dinner and just savoured it alone after, at its peak, nothing to be gained by further cellaring but certainly not over the hill, may depend on cellaring conditions but this bottle was just lovely and still has remarkable power
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2 cm below cork and slightly brown. On the nose green tones, vegatables and smokeyness. Hard and green on the palate. Not very nice and far over it's peak. Where I doubt if the peak was that high... I'm sorry to say but it's worse than I expected when I saw the other notes on CT
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Drank between three of us over a Churchill cigar on the deck of NiQ's new house on the Peak. Popped and poured then drank over a long leisurely conversation. Colour is deep and opaque ruby red but with a bit of dustiness hanging in there. Nose is classic and fully mature St. Emilion.....captivating intitially but well short of mesmerising. Palate was full, rich and laden with ripe belly-filling black and red fruits that is so typical of the 1989 vintage. This trupmpter only plays one tune, which is disappointing because there are a lot of notes hidden in there. Disappointingly short on length and resonance for what you would expect from the vintage. Overall, this came across as a rather over-mature 1989 Bordeaux of its class...which I'd put down to the individual bottle. Would love to try again because there was a lot there hidden away. But need to bear in mid that this is a vintage long before Gerard Perse elevated the estate. Thanks NiQ!
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Bordeaux 1989 Horizontal Tasting (Zurich): Oxidative and herbal notes, tobacco. Acidity is present. Despite some present and pleasant fruit, all is a bit short and simple. Past its peak.
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At Goosefoot - no formal notes. I have not owned this bottle from its "birth" so I was nervous. No need though, it was terrific. Incredibly silky with cherries and a touch of earth and spice.
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Wine was slightly cloudy with a medium + intensity. Garnet coloer with a brown water rim. The nose had a surprizing medium plus intensity primarily tobacco and leather but some fruit. It was fully developed but not pass its peak. On the palette there was black cherryand plum, tobacco, leather, and a hint of chocolate on the finish. The acidity was still remarkable on this wine ad the tannis were silky and well intergrated. Overall an excenllent wine delightful to concume!
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No mistaking the warm chocolatey ooze of a big right-banker here. I don't mean big in terms of an extra-ripe/over-extracted merlot bomb however as the fruit here is actually remarkably demure. What it does posess is a full-bodied, creamy palate and some plump but healthy fruit. I hate to say it as it sounds a litte derogatory for a PGCC from a good vintage but the word that springs to mind is "charming".
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The perfume of tobacco, spice, earth, and truffle was a pleasure to smell. But the wine was simple, lacking the same level of depth, excitement, and intensity found in the wines made at the property today. This bottle was served to me blind by Jean-Luc Thunevin. After tasting the wine and expressing my thoughts, Jean-Luc called 89 Pavie, “a wine of terroir”. I asked if that was good or bad in this case. With his impish grin, he slyly smiled and said “both’.
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Dense core - garnet/ruby with a slight orange rim; Sweet cedar on nose with chocolate, smoke and wood spice; On palate underlying core of dusky plum fruits. Good weight and lovely texture. Finishes with cocoa powder. Licorice and Anise also. Aging nicely and potentially could be better in 3-5 years.
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This is the oldest Pavie in my collection and was purchased at teh KaDeWe store in Berlin and brought back in my carry on luggage. Outstanding bottle that has done very well over time. Very good on open, but an hour in the decanter really made this bottle shine. Clear tobacco and leather, smoke and spice, after an hour, the nose developed further and the wine became fatter sweater and more round in the mouth. Drank well for three hours then began to deteriorate rapidly. Don't over decant this, let it stand an hour then enjoy.
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Ruby/garnet core fading to a garnet rim with slight bricking. Extremely complex on the nose. Black olives, soy, smoky sweet spice, cherry fruits - it really is incredible. Medium bodied on the palate - delicious continuation of the complexity on the nose. Outstanding hedonistic wine. Beautiful drinking now.
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Still quite red, but showing age. Plenty of development on the nose, some unspecific fruit. Delicious, reasonable balance (a little clouded), good in the mouth and great length.
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At first the wine seemed tired and the fruit flat, but over around three hours or so the fruit came out as well as did the structure of the wine. The color was a medium deep ruby with minimal color changes at the edge. The nose was full of plums. Minerals and a loaminess were nice additions, and black berry fruit, a fresh leafy tobacco, tar, and hints of baking chocolate rounded out the nose nicely. The mouthfeel was full bodied and dark fruit driven. More black plums, and dark chocoalte. Some bell pepper notes were there and the finish was good but not great with fine tannins. Very enjoyable. 90 pts. If this blle is representative, it will not get any better. Drink up.
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Vu le niveau un peu bas de la bouteille, j'étais méfiant. A tort, manifestement. Le vin est étonnamment jeune, certainement pas oxydé. La charge tannique est forte, sans que cela nuise à l'équilibre. La complexité est limitée et cela manque un peu de magie. Je crois que ce vin aurait mérité quelques années de garde supplémentaire.
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Bordeaux and Cabernet Sauvignon (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Lovely licorice and berry on the nose, very hot, thick, berry fruit, masculine, almost harsh intensity, needs three years to peak, big, intense, medium/soft tannins on the finish and lovely aftertaste.
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12/29/2023 - rmcnees Likes this wine: 89 Points
At thirty-four years, the fill level, label, foil and importantly the cork, were all in pristine condition - the cork showing slight saturation but still integrally intact. This was past its apex but pleasant and still within its acceptable drinking window, but at a point where it will no doubt diminish from age here forward.
Garnet colored, medium to full-bodied, balanced, smooth but relatively simple blackberry fruits with notes of mushroom, tobacco, dusty rose and hints of milk chocolate with soft fine tannins and elegant texture on the moderate finish.
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4/10/2023 - Rani Does not like this wine: 84 Points
Tasted blind next to the 1999 Pavie. Vegetal, seems shut down and has a very unpleasant bitter finish. No amount of air helped it.
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2/20/2022 - MJReb wrote: 91 Points
Chez JPL: here is still fruit, a bit rustic and tannic, the saltiness of the terroir, well balanced.
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6/24/2021 - MWiking wrote: 98 Points
förstår inte de låga betygen här på cellartracker på detta vin. Drack från magnum. Helt fantastiskt vin.
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5/21/2021 - brooklynguy wrote:
Not fair to this wine - we drank it alongside a 1970 Cheval Blanc - this was the backup wine to a flawed 70 Margaux, which in retrospect makes no sense whatsoever. But I guess I just assumed I wouldn't need a backup. Anyway, while obviously a good wine - great material, good balance, great potential, this showed like an immature toddler next to the 70 Cheval.
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8/5/2020 - NickA Likes this wine: 93 Points
The Development of Older Bordeaux (Zoom!): 55% Merlot, 25% CF, 20% CS; the estate is trying to get back to that cepage nowadays, ie more Cabernet. Only 13% alcohol. Pavie has lots of limestone so tends towards austerity (hence latterly the winemaking has aimed to beef it up - but that hadn't started in 1989).
Red/brown, with clear rim. Gentle on the nose and the palate. Sandalwood, woody embers, damp earth and leather on the nose - like muddy rugby boots in a kit bag. A mouthwatering freshness - still quite a bite to it, and spicy too, but attractively so. Burned meat turning into char siu towards the finish. A little bit faded, but intriguing and very tasty.
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12/8/2019 - red_man Likes this wine: 94 Points
level lowermost neck, cork broke, colour black cherry red with distinct brown rim, nose rich, warm, deep and enveloping, lovely, palate also rich and relatively soft, long and balanced, enough tannin still at finish to keep it all very clean, overall shows its pedigree and class, very enjoyable indeed and disappeared at an alarming rate, at its peak or maybe even slightly over and on the very gentle downward slope, drink up (my last bottle), got better with time in the decanter / glass, nose developed more and more complexity, sad when it was finished
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3/16/2019 - townjbc Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is quite lovely and I would guess at its peak. Blackurrants. Perfect St Emilion
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11/21/2016 - Pacalet Likes this wine: 92 Points
Popped 2 bottles, and both r consistently good. With good dark red fruit, leather, herbs, cigar all in good harmony, great time to drink now.
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11/3/2016 - SimonG wrote: 91 Points
St Emillion First Growths (Chez Bruce, London): Similar colour to the Angelus. Nose a little softer and dustier with a hint of Brett. More vibrant on the palate. Not quite as composed as previous bottle last year. A touch of spearmint and the fruit drying a little on the finish. ****
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9/3/2016 - Burgundy Al wrote: 85 Points
Another Saturday at Chevalier...Mostly Blind (Chevalier Fine Wines - Chicago IL): Open and decanted 3+ hours before tasting. Mushroom and leather aromas i liked, but flavors also didn't show much fruit and came across as rather tired, even drying on finish. Not as interesting as another bottle from a different source last year.
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4/26/2016 - MarceloIdeses Likes this wine: 95 Points
Great wine in great vintage.
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7/29/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Served alongside Pavie 1970. This was open and decanted an hour+. Started off strong with ripe black fruit and plenty of sweet spice, emerging signs of of maturation. Didn't really evolve much over the course of the evening. Started much more interesting vs the 1970, but might have finished just behind.
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3/7/2015 - THT wrote: 92 Points
Magnifique bouteille qui m'a fait peur au début car bouchon très difficile à extraire. Il était en miette et j'ai du carafes. Le vin d'abord d'une couleur légère, tuilee, a pris de la profondeur avec le temps. Superbe vin à maturité, bien qu'il en ait encore sous la pédale. Cèdre, épices, cuir, mais avec encore du fruit. Le corps est d'une grande classe, à la fois fondu mais encore de la puissance. Superbe !
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2/28/2015 - fatfishzsy wrote: 89 Points
香气中有一丝果酱,酸度不错,有后香,单宁高,紧致,酒体重。
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1/14/2015 - MEKWINE Likes this wine: 90 Points
chez Bruce, 1st growths, Saint Emilion. Surprisingly good and beyond expectations. Minerals and undergrowth, hints of soft, ripe fruits and a medium to long finish.
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1/14/2015 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Immediately softer, more supple entry but still rich, dark, coffee notes fading to a very slightly dry finish. Really quite lovely!
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1/14/2015 - SimonG wrote: 92 Points
St Emillion First Growths (Chez Bruce, London): A touch more mineral on the nose than the Angelus. Mid weight and nicely rounded. Fully mature and maybe even losing its fruit slightly. Damp earth. Fresh and quite minerally. Very drinkable. ****
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12/29/2014 - alexdoug wrote: 94 Points
Mis en carafe pendant 4 heures. Nez incroyablement vivant.
Corps superbe, compléxité toujours présente. Long et puissant à la fois.
Un réel plaisir.
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10/25/2014 - RussK wrote: 90 Points
Russk K&A's Group at Vienna Cafe. Still tight. Not sure why every goes nuts about these.
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7/26/2014 - Flavito wrote: 95 Points
Perfectly mature, velvety and elegant, from the good old days of the Valette family. Nothing to do with the recent crap that they turn out!
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5/26/2014 - red_man Likes this wine: 94 Points
good level (lowermost neck) and excellent cork, kept in air-conditioned cellar since purchase at release, some brown at rim, fine, classy nose, palate has class, strength, lovely fine fruit flavour, great length and balance, so good that stopped drinking it with dinner and just savoured it alone after, at its peak, nothing to be gained by further cellaring but certainly not over the hill, may depend on cellaring conditions but this bottle was just lovely and still has remarkable power
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4/23/2014 - RCS73 wrote: 85 Points
Agree with Kriz. probably well past its peak.
Had a distinct watery magenta color upon decanting, clouded up significantly as well.
Thankfully smell and taste were not as bad as appearance - which frankly appalled me
Wine was reasonably complex for its age and showed better over a couple of hours.
Thankfully I only had one bottle
Certainly drinkable but nothing special
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3/22/2014 - Kriz wrote: 80 Points
2 cm below cork and slightly brown. On the nose green tones, vegatables and smokeyness. Hard and green on the palate. Not very nice and far over it's peak. Where I doubt if the peak was that high... I'm sorry to say but it's worse than I expected when I saw the other notes on CT
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10/14/2013 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 Points
Drank between three of us over a Churchill cigar on the deck of NiQ's new house on the Peak. Popped and poured then drank over a long leisurely conversation. Colour is deep and opaque ruby red but with a bit of dustiness hanging in there. Nose is classic and fully mature St. Emilion.....captivating intitially but well short of mesmerising. Palate was full, rich and laden with ripe belly-filling black and red fruits that is so typical of the 1989 vintage. This trupmpter only plays one tune, which is disappointing because there are a lot of notes hidden in there. Disappointingly short on length and resonance for what you would expect from the vintage. Overall, this came across as a rather over-mature 1989 Bordeaux of its class...which I'd put down to the individual bottle. Would love to try again because there was a lot there hidden away. But need to bear in mid that this is a vintage long before Gerard Perse elevated the estate. Thanks NiQ!
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4/19/2013 - Wine_lvr wrote: 87 Points
Bordeaux 1989 Horizontal Tasting (Zurich): Oxidative and herbal notes, tobacco. Acidity is present. Despite some present and pleasant fruit, all is a bit short and simple. Past its peak.
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5/7/2012 - W&FS Cellar Chair wrote:
B: Excellent ripeness and extract. Among the most powerful Pavie in two decades. Tasted at the winery 3/15/1990
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4/14/2012 - Brsed wrote: 92 Points
At Goosefoot - no formal notes. I have not owned this bottle from its "birth" so I was nervous. No need though, it was terrific. Incredibly silky with cherries and a touch of earth and spice.
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11/21/2011 - Educated Palette wrote: 92 Points
Wine was slightly cloudy with a medium + intensity. Garnet coloer with a brown water rim. The nose had a surprizing medium plus intensity primarily tobacco and leather but some fruit. It was fully developed but not pass its peak. On the palette there was black cherryand plum, tobacco, leather, and a hint of chocolate on the finish. The acidity was still remarkable on this wine ad the tannis were silky and well intergrated. Overall an excenllent wine delightful to concume!
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9/16/2011 - G_H Likes this wine: 89 Points
Great wine at the loser's place (Otti this time) (Winterthur): Chocolate powder, Warm nose, leather, forest wood some orange zest a bit rough on the edges but very good in general.
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8/7/2011 - llew wrote: 88 Points
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12/11/2010 - Khamen wrote: 90 Points
No mistaking the warm chocolatey ooze of a big right-banker here. I don't mean big in terms of an extra-ripe/over-extracted merlot bomb however as the fruit here is actually remarkably demure. What it does posess is a full-bodied, creamy palate and some plump but healthy fruit. I hate to say it as it sounds a litte derogatory for a PGCC from a good vintage but the word that springs to mind is "charming".
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6/8/2010 - Rupert wrote: 89 Points
Chateau Pavie vertical 1959 to 2006 (Institute of Directors, London): Less on the nose than the 90, but rich, exotic (again) and substantial and altogether rather better, though still not very exciting
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6/14/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 88 Points
The perfume of tobacco, spice, earth, and truffle was a pleasure to smell. But the wine was simple, lacking the same level of depth, excitement, and intensity found in the wines made at the property today. This bottle was served to me blind by Jean-Luc Thunevin. After tasting the wine and expressing my thoughts, Jean-Luc called 89 Pavie, “a wine of terroir”. I asked if that was good or bad in this case. With his impish grin, he slyly smiled and said “both’.
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5/13/2009 - vespasian wrote: 92 Points
Dense core - garnet/ruby with a slight orange rim; Sweet cedar on nose with chocolate, smoke and wood spice; On palate underlying core of dusky plum fruits. Good weight and lovely texture. Finishes with cocoa powder. Licorice and Anise also. Aging nicely and potentially could be better in 3-5 years.
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1/4/2009 - Mark wrote: 94 Points
This is the oldest Pavie in my collection and was purchased at teh KaDeWe store in Berlin and brought back in my carry on luggage. Outstanding bottle that has done very well over time. Very good on open, but an hour in the decanter really made this bottle shine. Clear tobacco and leather, smoke and spice, after an hour, the nose developed further and the wine became fatter sweater and more round in the mouth. Drank well for three hours then began to deteriorate rapidly. Don't over decant this, let it stand an hour then enjoy.
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12/19/2008 - vespasian wrote: 94 Points
Ruby/garnet core fading to a garnet rim with slight bricking. Extremely complex on the nose. Black olives, soy, smoky sweet spice, cherry fruits - it really is incredible. Medium bodied on the palate - delicious continuation of the complexity on the nose. Outstanding hedonistic wine. Beautiful drinking now.
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11/27/2008 - tendring wrote: 89 Points
Still quite red, but showing age.
Plenty of development on the nose, some unspecific fruit.
Delicious, reasonable balance (a little clouded), good in the mouth and great length.
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10/18/2008 - ludwigbpm wrote: 95 Points
Un superbe équilibre, sans lourdeur et à son sommet en terme d'évolution.
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4/1/2007 - Zweder wrote: 90 Points
A creamy wine with chocolate, coffee and mocha. Lacks a little in fruit, but is not too old.
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1/6/2007 - jkoenen wrote: 87 Points
Bordeaux 1989 (and the rest...) @ Peter V. (Netherlands): Spicy and berbal, lavas, pepper. Graceful, not powerful. Slightly lean and drying towards the finish. 16/20
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6/4/2006 - cct wrote: 90 Points
At first the wine seemed tired and the fruit flat, but over around three hours or so the fruit came out as well as did the structure of the wine.
The color was a medium deep ruby with minimal color changes at the edge. The nose was full of plums. Minerals and a loaminess were nice additions, and black berry fruit, a fresh leafy tobacco, tar, and hints of baking chocolate rounded out the nose nicely. The mouthfeel was full bodied and dark fruit driven. More black plums, and dark chocoalte. Some bell pepper notes were there and the finish was good but not great with fine tannins. Very enjoyable. 90 pts. If this blle is representative, it will not get any better. Drink up.
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12/31/2005 - PhDP wrote: 88 Points
Vu le niveau un peu bas de la bouteille, j'étais méfiant. A tort, manifestement. Le vin est étonnamment jeune, certainement pas oxydé. La charge tannique est forte, sans que cela nuise à l'équilibre. La complexité est limitée et cela manque un peu de magie. Je crois que ce vin aurait mérité quelques années de garde supplémentaire.
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5/6/2005 - tendring wrote: 89 Points
Quite a vivid deep colour.
Meaty nose, somewhat closed.
Initially smooth, lacking fruit, quite tannic.
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9/1/1997 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 89 Points
Bordeaux and Cabernet Sauvignon (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Lovely licorice and berry on the nose, very hot, thick, berry fruit, masculine, almost harsh intensity, needs three years to peak, big, intense, medium/soft tannins on the finish and lovely aftertaste.
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