2014 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru La Dominode

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  1/2/2024 - KVM wrote:

  From a friend's cellar. Clean, lightly fruity. Firm palate, not giving a lot of fruit. Darn, these 2014s are hard to understand

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  8/24/2023 - winot Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium cherry with slight bricking. Quite a big, bright cherry nose, spicy. Nice palate, quite intense red cherry fruit. Not super complex, but tasty. Still some tannins to shed, this has a few years left to run.

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  10/14/2022 - MAC49 wrote: 88 Points

  This is still tight as a drum with vegetal and green notes. Maybe needs more time to integrate.

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  10/13/2021 - Mag357 Likes this wine:

  Tasted alongside Bruno Clair La Dominode 2014.
  
  Completely different winemaking here: On the nose, stems in evidence, very light reduction that dissipates with air (suspect late racking and elevage on lees), black and blue fruit profile, licorice. The mouth is less plush than B. Clair, with more tension, and slight bitterness due to stems, indicating shorter cold maceration, and with lively acids and very slightly saline (stems and late malos). Mouth shows more depth, and more tannins, counterbalancing the opulence. The tannins need some more cellar time, they are just a tad dry right now. This is already very good, the overall bitter dryness and tangy acids balancing the sweetness of the Dominode terroir. This should be better in 5 years.
  Yet this is opulent too and very true to its clay terroir -share similar traits with Bruno Clair, but in a different style.
  
  Then very fine the day after: much more purity and finer tannins, dryness gone. Needs another 5 years in cellar.
  
  To sum up:
  Bruno clair: more opulence and fullness, more purity of fruit, open for business right now.
  Pavelot: more brambly, more complexity along with the terroir generosity, will be better in a couple of years. Less expensive.

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  8/7/2021 - Philbeagles wrote: 89 Points

  Hmmm.... I am not sure about some of these ratings and the drinking windows. This seems to be waning but yet the window is not supposed to open until 2024.... and last until 2060...WTAF is JG saying (93+). Maybe I do not understand burgundy yet, I thought I was getting the hang of it... Its a stretch to give it an 89 .. I do not see this getting better. I do understand that tertiary flavours do evolve but I do not see this changing chemical compostion and becoming that. My reference point for tertiary flavours is a 1996 De Vogue Musginy VV when it had about 8 years on it. It was sublime. I have 6 more of these with which to experiment. Fingers crossed.I guess its is the in same category as someone giving at $12 burgundy a 100 point rating. It still makes it into CT scoring.
  
  Caveat emptor.

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