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1999 Château Pavie |
| Vintage | 1999 |  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 93.6 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 111 notes) | |
| Tasted by Gregg G on 12/17/2009: Drank from .375ml. Decanted in a wide decanter for 3 hrs then rebottled. I've had this wine several times. It is maturing at a snails pace. This is a modern expression of Bordeaux with toasty oak flavors that tend to overwhelm the fruit. The fruit shows a dark profile of cassis and chocolate without any mature flavors. It's full bodied and rich. The tannins are rounding a bit but still present and somewhat sweet. I'm down to only a handful of the .375mls. Thinking of waiting a few years before I open the next one. (812 views) | |
| Tasted by maothecat on 12/11/2009 & rated 92 points: Will buy this again. (857 views) | |
| Tasted by jonphillips on 11/27/2009 & rated 92 points: Needs time. (1016 views) | |
| Tasted by Blair Curtis on 11/26/2009 & rated 94 points: This was the first Pavie I have actually enjoyed. For my taste, this is a greatly superior wine to the monstrous '98. This wine, I suppose because of the lesser vintage, is not an overblown caricature. Rather, it was instantly identified by the group (blind) as a modern Bordeaux, but an excellent one. I agree. Definitely on the black fruit side of the spectrum. Ripe and plush, but not dessicated. Creamy mouthfeel. For those who only like "classic" Bordeaux, this might still be too much. But for those who don't mind a bit more modern style, this is a very fine example. Mouthcoating and with a long, smoky finish. (1038 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 11/24/2009 & rated 92 points: WineFanatic Bordeaux Offline (Vancouver, BC): Tasted blind – darkest wine yet. Almost purple. Darker notes on the nose too with plum, blackberries and blackcurrant. Some smoky notes as well. Intense and concentrated on the palate. Surprisingly soft in the mouth for being such a big wine. A little heat coming through on the finish. Started to open up a bit more in the glass. This is excellent now but needs more time to develop. Try again in 5-10 years. Excellent. 92+ (1105 views) | |
| Tasted by dmalcolm on 11/24/2009: Wine Fanatic Bordeaux Offline: Mmm, now we're talking! Smooth, silky texture and full-bodied. Dark fruits, graphite and smoke. My WOTN. (1108 views) | |
| Tasted by Jared on 11/13/2009 & rated 95 points: I was amazed at the color and freshness of this wine. For a 10 year old wine it certainly was deep and dark with no signs of ageing. This will most definitely age gracefully--not like one Pamela Anderson. Plums, black raspberries, smoke and nicely intergrated tannins and oak. Feels like a complete bordeaux, although I don't have a ton of experience. Delicious. Seemed to be a lot of people's WOTN until the Neutral Barrel showed up. 95pts. (1237 views) | |
| Tasted by Vinsant on 11/9/2009: Damn this was good. Some wood but surrounded nicely by blue and red fruit, dirt/earth, leather, and tobacco. Nice mouthfeel with a long finish with tannins still rippin'. Will seek out more...once the lottery hits! Really appreciated the generosity of the big pour, wish I had more time and more experience with BDX. (1413 views) | |
| Tasted by bajayngo on 11/7/2009: 09 cayuse dinner quick notes - this might have been my wine of the dinner. So muscular, huge tannin structure, sice box, leather, sour cherries, earth, just a monster but totally intigrated. I could drink this every day of my life!!! (1169 views) | |
| Tasted by taipanli on 11/2/2009 & rated 94 points: Typically Pavie. Harmonious, fruitful, hints of oak. Less expansive than the 98 or the 2000 but still displays plenty of balance. A little drying and short on the finish but it's still a very nice drink. (510 views) | |
| Tasted by DianeR on 10/12/2009 & rated 96 points: Drank too early, but WOW. Slight bricking on the wine, which surprised me... but no sign of any heat damage. Beautiful, rich ruby color. The nose is fantastic...cherry, cassis, a hint of leather, and it's still a little closed. I'm looking forward to following the progress of this wine over the course of the evening. On the palate... cedar, cherry, plum, smoke, and earth, with a long and tasty finish. (1647 views) | |
| Tasted by swyang on 10/1/2009 & rated 94 points: Great wine but opened too early. Very deep purple color. The nose is still closed after 2hours of opening the bottle. The material is huge, but one definitely feels it is made out of grapes, and terroir. Very dense, very promising, very suave, but still primary and calling for another 4 to5 years of cellaring. (1709 views) | |
| Tasted by Rick-again on 9/27/2009 & rated 94 points: opened decanted and drank over the next hour...wonderful wine, garnet color, some smoke, tannins integrating with the fruit, smooth easy to drink, secondary flavors emerging (1733 views) | |
| Tasted by Finare Vinare on 9/26/2009 & rated 93 points: (1357 views) | |
| Tasted by peblin on 9/26/2009 & rated 94 points: Pavie Vertical: Brick red. Attacking, acidic smell. Digestive crackers. Herbs, cassis and some oriental spiciness (from battonage?). Licorice. Elegant taste with rounded and integrated tannins. (1748 views) | |
| Tasted by ansmith on 9/9/2009 & rated 93 points: (1611 views) | |
| Tasted by rthun on 8/29/2009 & rated 95 points: Decanted 2 hours before drinking. Dark garnet color. Beautiful nose of sweet, dark fruit. Still a little chewy. Plenty of tannins still present. Wine evolved throughout the night. Flavors of dark cherries, lead pencil, tar, briar, saddle leather. Still a little too young. Needs 5 more years in the cellar. A very good Pavie. (1856 views) | |
| Tasted by JBVino on 8/17/2009: Decanted approx 2 hours before consumption...on the nose classic bordeaux flavors combined with riper fruit. On the front of the palate, riper fruit dominated but pleasant enough as combined with a bit of aging bordeaux secondary flavors but towards back of the palate the heat became more apparent and unfortunately finished on a disappointing note. Solid enough bordeaux but definitely in new world style and lacking the balance and length with alcohol showing. (1986 views) | |
| Tasted by jreis on 8/2/2009: Smoky ripe blue fruit, earth and chocolate on the nose. Nice classic structure on the palate with earth and blacker fruits showing through. Well integrated oak and tannins, both present but not overhwhelming. Not quite as opulent and ripe as some of the newer vintages, but a very good drink. It may pick up some more secondary character with some bottle time, but it is in a very good place. My second favorite wine in a 99 horizontal, much better than the Cheval Blanc and only surpassed by the Shafer HSS. (2073 views) | |
| Tasted by Employee500 on 8/1/2009 & rated 94 points: Smokin' (2083 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 6/28/2009: Dark purple core, lightening to dark red at the rim. Initially not much there on the nose or palate besides some oak and alcohol, but that was just impatience. Once it warmed up from cellar temp and had a half hour of air, some fruit and tar and smoke started to come out on the nose, but still a little hollow on the mid and back palate. Give it more time, though, another hour and the nose starts showing dark cherries, plums, smoke and tobacco, but still a bit of alcoholic heat. The palate starts to round out nicely with ripe fruit on the front end, no real complexity, low acid but not flabby, good balance, medium body, not as alcoholic on the palate as on the nose, but the fruit starts to give way to the alchohol and tannins on the back palate. Another hour and there's still a hollow spot on the mid and back palate. Is it sleeping or just not that great? (2429 views) | |
| Tasted by vanpe003 on 6/14/2009 & rated 94 points: The best Pavie I've had to date in terms of current drinking. Remarkably approachable. Doesn't seem as "full throttle" or over the top as other vintages I've tried ('02, '03, '04). Perfumed nose with just a hint of game and smoke, the stuff I normally find on the younger Pavies. On the palate, outstanding balance and mouthfeel. Reminds me more of a good bottle of '86 Haut Brion than it does a Pavie. Still young, and far from developing secondary characteristics. Tannins on the finish, but fine and not drying. This should be even better in 5-10 years, at which point I think it will score a point or two better. I can't speculate further than that. Throwing some sediment now, so worth decanting. I was drinking this in the middle of an auction for more of the same, which put me front and center on a bidding war. I don't feel bad about the 3000ml I won. Feel worse about the bids I lost. (2420 views) | |
| Tasted by pnuszen on 5/24/2009 & rated 93 points: A night for '99 bordeauxs- the birthday girl looked in my cellar tracker and told me "this is the wine you're binging!"....Decantered for 2 hours....Deep and dark color....with an old world nose...my first big right bank....and then the taste! complex taste of cherries, chocolate with a very long finish....ironically, it reminded me of a new world wine ...i never would have believed that it is dominated by merlot....Paired beautifully with lamb.....thank you birthday girl....for always knowing the right wine to enjoy.... (2607 views) | |
| Tasted by davergny on 5/22/2009 & rated 94 points: Nice lift on the nose, cherries, fresh earth and gardinias. Full bodied but elegant, long and rich, berries, earth and chocolate notes, fine grained tannins, long finish. Classy and Delicious! (3011 views) | |
| Tasted by dwkamin on 4/13/2009 & rated 90 points: Great nose. Cedar and hints of tobacco on the palate. Long finish. (3022 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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