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2003 Château Pavie |
| Vintage | 2003 |  Label 1 of 24   | |
| Type | Red | ||
| Producer | Château Pavie (web) | ||
| Variety | Red Bordeaux Blend | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Bordeaux | ||
| SubRegion | Libournais | ||
| Appellation | St. Émilion Grand Cru |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 94.1 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 43 notes) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 1/9/2010: Considerably different and settled from how I remember this a couple of years ago. Bold coffee notes. Medium-grain tannins turn surprisingly raw on the finish. Dark fruits. Good elements, hard to see where this will go; tannin structure makes me a bit nervous. (719 views) | |
| Tasted by Matt Scott on 1/1/2010 & rated 98 points: Decanted five hours. Gorgeous dark garnet that will stain anything; quite dense. Exotic and opulent. The finish sails for decades and the palate is coated, coated and coated again. There's definitely acid that is evident and really adds to the perfection of this. She is full figured, voluptuous, and dressed in velvet. What a head turner! The nose is a ripe bouquet of raisin, black berry, dark dried cherry, black tea, jam and leather. Fresh and complete. The cherry and black tea are outspoken on the finish. This is exuberant, ostentatious and provocative, yet elegant. I can see why the "Claret Elite" did not appreciate it as much. It is a new world wine in style with it's essence breaking through, alluding to a St. Emilion Bordeaux from another ripe year in the same vein as '29, '45, '47 and '82. Admirers of Tignanello would appreciate this. One of the best of the vintage and will last for decades. Still could use a few more years and will probably go through a backwards phase at some point. Stupefier. Drink 2014 - . (863 views) | |
| Tasted by KenK on 11/8/2009 & rated 95 points: Did not disappoint. Sleek sexy wine staying true to Bordeaux, but with sexy feminine edge. Rich round ripe dark cherry fruit with sweet dark chocolate. Creamy mouthfeel with nice concentration and nearly lush quality. Silky smooth filled with nice minerals. Great balance featuring well integrated acidity and soft tannins. A bit one dimentiosnal, but loads of enjoyment with further potential on aging quite clear. Each pour improved over the hour it was opened and consumed. Recommend a couple hours of decanting, but was open knit with a simple pop and pou into decanter. (1744 views) | |
| Tasted by Tavastgatan on 10/31/2009 & rated 94 points: (1233 views) | |
| Tasted by noppakit s. on 10/19/2009 & rated 96 points: Big Name : A Night of St.Emilion 2003 One true thing about great vintage of a great wine is... The wine is always elegant, Pavie 2003 represents the very nice cool and panorame scent of St.Emilion aroma. I hardly believe this is from 2003 vintage. The body is quite full, firm tannin, lovely dense, delicious. Aftertaste is deep and long, powerful finished but I prefer La Mondotte. Drink 2011 - 2027.......................94-96/100......................... (1828 views) | |
| Tasted by peblin on 9/26/2009 & rated 97 points: Pavie Vertical: Concentrated, red with hints of brick color. Complex, compact, deep smell with blackcurrant, cherry, tobacco, cedar and some dried fruit. Also, actually, hints of port. (Hints, I said...) Very, very concentrated taste. Huge. Smooth tannins but gazillions of them. This wine is definitely on the border of being too much... But what a wine! (2127 views) | |
| Tasted by Finare Vinare on 9/26/2009 & rated 95 points: (1548 views) | |
| Tasted by JJL on 5/3/2009 & rated 92 points: When opened, flowers, wet stones and wheat/brown rice. After a few hour decant, the nose turned towards menthol, iodine, and smoke, similar to a Chave. The tannins are big, drying and slightly chewey. There is also good acidity, better than many of the '03's that I have had. The palate is shut down at this point, no fruit, but given the vintage, you know it has to be there. There are only dark flavors at this point including tobacco, espresso and leather. Reminds me of the '00 few years ago. I think this will age well, but it will take patience. (3443 views) | |
| Tasted by cadamson on 4/19/2009 & rated 92 points: Ruby color. Very tight and closed, though after a couple hours it was giving up an excellent nose of currant, dark fruits and sweet oak. You could just feel everything in the right place on the palate, wanting to shout out how great it is, but instead just got whispers of future potential. This will be great down the road. (3455 views) | |
| Tasted by kstoddard on 4/17/2009 & rated 93 points: Deep ruby color. Black fruit with a nice french oak component on the nose. Tastes of blackberry, currant, violet, leather and earth. Rich mid palate with good balance. Firm tannins. Wound up tight. Completely closed down and not giving an inch. It's difficult to evaluate at this stage but evident this will be a very nice wine with some bottle age. (3448 views) | |
| Tasted by jivey on 4/17/2009 & rated 93 points: Still a nice wine but I prefer the 98,99,00,01,02. Black center with dark rim, charcoal, crème de cassis, melted licorice, espresso roast, and blackberries. The heat of the vintage really shows thru right now making the wine a bit over the top but don't see any reason this will not improve over time. The limestone is really expressive in this vintage. (3581 views) | |
| Tasted by vinamok on 2/8/2009 & rated 95 points: a wine with huge concentration, but need some more time to develop. a great wine but give it 10 more years. (3902 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 1/23/2009 & rated 96 points: This is an awesome huge wine. I don't know what the controversy is all about. This is great stuff. Give it 5 more years or so to really blossom. (4012 views) | |
| Tasted by beezer6 on 10/24/2008 & rated 94 points: Grand Bordeaux Tasting w/ Jill (Binny's South Loop - Chicago, IL): Binny's South Loop October Bordeaux Wine Tasting. Rich dark chocolate and dark fruit. Very Old World in style. Tremendous effort. Absolutely in love with Pavie on my first experience. (4343 views) | |
| Tasted by HenryW on 5/13/2008 & rated 91 points: Initially closed, tannic and oak-dominated. After a couple of hours, notes of spice and coffee emerge on the nose along with blackberry fruit. Tart earthy finish. (5777 views) | |
| Tasted by abh on 3/15/2008: Tasted at The Sampler. While I didn't quite get the Jancis R. portyness, this is pretty ridiculous stuff. No signs of structure whatsoever, just masses and masses of primary fruit. I by no means hated it as a taste, but nothing to do with what Bordeaux should be like. Completely outclassed by both Pavie 85 and in a totally different way Canon La-Gaffilere 70. Although there is obviously body to the fruit here, I don't think it has the structure to age either. If you want this kind of wine, look to the New World and pay a fifth of the price.... (6239 views) | |
| Tasted by zimmy07 on 3/10/2008 & rated 93 points: Big ripe fruit just bursting in the mouth. Coffee notes and opulence all around. Decanted for two + hours. Very nice wine, really young, but glad I was able to try it at an early age (6436 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 3/9/2008: Young, grapey bubble gum type flavors. Plush, heavily Merlot influenced. Distinctly modern St. Emilion in character. Big, ripe wine that needs time to show what it's about. (6574 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 3/3/2008: 14% alcohol. 60% merlot, 30% cab franc, 10% cabernet. 375ml. decanted. this was as hard as nails. my first taste of this, so i will presume it is closed/ shut down. nice nose, but angular and tannic on the pallate. beyond that, there is no value in discussing it. (6772 views) | |
| Tasted by Redpine on 1/1/2008 & rated 98 points: Sad that this was my only bottle. I think this is the finest Bordeaux I've ever had. Nice balance, with a great finish. (7464 views) | |
| Tasted by JeffGMorris on 12/7/2007 & rated 92 points: Dinner at Bistro 607 with a large crowd. Dark, deep, rich purple color. This is a big, brawny young Bordeaux with huge fruit on the palate and searing tannins on a very long finish. To me it drinks more like Cabernet Sauvignon that either Merlot or Cabernet Franc. I can see where the Port-like comparisons come from, and it was getting to be dessert time by the time this was opened. Probably best with a cheese plate and also probably best 20 years down the road. 50+13+13+8+8 = 92+ (7044 views) | |
| Tasted by Jack on 11/14/2007: Stacked and packed but giving just a little glimpse of it's potential. Hold. While enjoyable now these are not ready and will be much better down the road! (8004 views) | |
| Tasted by bon vivant on 11/6/2007 & rated 98 points: Controversy? what controversy, quick decant after 15 min this was singing...Jeb's notes from 9/29/07 are on the money. Nose was full of fabulous dark ripe fruit almost like a top notch Ausi. cab. but the taste & finish is all Bordeaux.... bottle sucked down in under 1 hr...As good a young Bordeaux as any... (8222 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 10/6/2007 & rated 98 points: (3365 views) | |
| Tasted by jdunnuck on 9/29/2007 & rated 97 points: Just another weekend in leadville..; 9/28/2007-9/30/2007 (Leadville, CO): Pop and pour and then consumed over the evening. An absolutely stunning bottle of wine that while exotic and massively structured, is perfectly balanced, pure and amazingly precise. The nose is dark and meaty with ripe fruit, herb, flowers and pot roast aromas mixed with wood and full bore coffee aromas. Full bodied, balanced, pure and filled to the brim with sweet tannins, this has a finish that won’t quite. Quite happy to have another one of these and have no idea how this could be a controversial wine. (8592 views) | |
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About red wine The variety Red Bordeaux Blend on CellarTracker implies any blend using any or all of the five traditional Bordeaux varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. As such, this is used worldwide, whether for wines from Bordeaux, Meritages from California and Canada, some Super-Tuscan wines etc. Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) | Simple Bordeaux primer Libournais (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) Saint Emilion Grat Classified Growth, Classified Growths, Grands Crus Classes, GCC In 1954, while the "Graves" growths had just published their own classification, the wine syndicate of Saint-Emilion, composed by wine growers, brokers and wine traders with the approval of the INAO - Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (A.O.C), decided to work on a classification for the wines of Saint Emilion. Initially, four grades were defined. These were reduced to two - First Great Classified Growth (A and B) and Great Classified Growth - in 1984. As of Medoc's 1855 historical grading, the Saint-Emilion Great Classified Growth classification is not only based on qualitative criteria by tasting the wines on a ten years period previous to the assessment, but also on commercial considerations such as: - sales price levels - national and international commercial distribution - the estate's reputation on the market Properties who don't manage to join the club of about sixty Classified Growths are given the denomination of Great Growth ("Grand Cru"), while the remaining wineries of the A.O.C are simply reported as "Saint-Emilion". It is to be noted that the owners must officially apply to appear in the official classification. Thus for example the famous Chateau Tertre-Roteboeuf, whose quality and reputation would easily justify to be listed among the First Great Classified Growths, does not appear here by the will of its owner, François Mitjaville. The Saint-Emilion Great Growth classification was revised in 1969, 1985, 1996 and 2006. The only two guaranteed vintage (A.O.C) who can apply to the classification are the "Saint-Emilion Grand Cru" and "Saint-Emilion" areas. By grading 61 properties, the 2006 revision confirmed many growths from the former classification, but also caused a number of surprises and a few inevitable disappointments. Many observers thought that the impressive progression of Perse's Chateau Pavie since 1998 would be rewarded by an upgrade into the First Great Classified Growths (A) category, but finally such was not the case. Among the estates promoted to the First Great Classified Growths  category are Chateau Troplong-Mondot and Pavie-Macquin, whose efforts made since the Nineties fully justify their new grade. It should be noted that no First Great Classified Growth was relegated to the lower Great Classified Growth class.
Promoted growths from the status of Great Growth ("Grand Cru") to Great Classified Growth ("Grand Cru Classe") are: Chateaux Bellefont-Belcier, Destieux, Fleur Cardinale, Grand Corbin, Grand Corbin-Despagne and Monbousquet.
The demoted growths from the status of Great Classified Growth to Great Growth are: Chateaux Bellevue, Cadet Bon, Faurie de Souchard, Guadet Saint-Julien, La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Belivier), La Tour du Pin-Figeac (Moueix), Lamarzelle, Petite Faurie de Soutard, Tertre Daugay, Villemaurine and Yon-Figeac. If the recent samples of some of the above mentioned properties may justify their current downgrade, there are great chances that estates like Bellevue, Tertre Daugay or Yon-Figeac will be upgraded to their previous rankings by the next revision in 2016 as the progresses noted after 2000, but not entering in the range of vintages (1993 - 2002) appointed for the criteria of selection for the 2006 classification, are noticable.
The two following estates have completely disappeared from the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classification: Curé-Bon-la-Madeleine (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Canon) and La Clusière (integrated meanwhile to Chateau Pavie).
Finally, no estate considered as "garagiste" has integrated the classification. Valandraud, Mondotte, Le Dome, Bellevue-Mondotte or Magrez-Fombrauge have, for the least, the potential to be ranked as Great Classified Growths. In sight of the very fine quality reached by the above mentioned estates in recent vintages as well as all the innovative wine making methods used by the "garagistes", it remains to be seen whether the authorities will dare to cross the line in 2016..?
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