1975 Château Pavie Decesse

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 85 points

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  10/18/2019 - vinero Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  You never know with old bottles, some are fantastic and others disappointing like this one. Opening with fierce acidity. Then after 1-2 hours more sweet tones came through together with earth, leather and cheese. The finish was long and rather dry in an unpleasant way. Drinkable, but disintegrating.

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  3/16/2013 - MusignyBlanc wrote:

  Purchased at auction - the usual unverifiable representations were made about proper storage. Ullage was UMS. Removed the foil to find a completely saturated cork, which I was able to completely remove (although in many pieces). In the glass, the wine was quite brown, but with a dark colored center. First taste was quite funky. Wine was not clearly not corked or dead, but not promising. Two hours open and retried (did not decant, but just ox'd from bottle). Tobacco, leather, earth, misc. funk, and then this amazing mid-palate core of very sweet and acidic fruit. Wow! I was quite surprised as I have never had a wine this old (other than Sauternes or similar) with a bona fide mid-palate of sweet fruit. (This had more fruit than the 1995 Pomerol I drank several weeks ago.) Over the next hours, the wine continued to evolve with the appearance of a distinctly minty/herbal nose. Not the most integrated wine (old, then fruit, then old again), but really fun to drink. Next bottle I will slow ox for 4-5 hours to start.

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