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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by JJTH on 12/21/2023: Kris drank the bottle with Ben at La Villa (2323 views) | | Tasted by husslein on 7/2/2023 & rated 95 points: Not as good as 2000, 2005 or 2009 (2910 views) | | Tasted by Harley1199 on 6/12/2022 & rated 95 points: By the glass. Another text booked example of an iron fist in a silk glove. Fine aromas that quickly envelop you. Only a splash from a just one bottle. On the palate an undeniable depth, on the one hand is intense and powerful and on the other smooth and elegant, sliding like a silk handkerchief down the throat. At this point, it does not surprise anyone except for its regularity in excellence. Something similar to Vieux Château Certain in the Pomerol. I always compare them (in my mind).
Por copas. Otro ejemplo de libro de puño de hierro en guante de seda. Finos aromas que rápidamente te envuelven. Sólo un ligero chorrito de una única botella. Al paladar una innegable profundidad, de una parte es intenso y potente y de la otra suave y elegante, deslizándose como un pañuelo de seda por la garganta. A estas alturas, no sorprende a nadie salvo por su regularidad en la excelencia. Algo similar a Vieux Château Certain en el Pomerol. Siempre los comparo en mi cabeza. (5075 views) | | Tasted by Decarlor on 3/6/2022 & rated 100 points: To me this is the representation of almost the perfection. One of my favourites. (5153 views) | | Tasted by csimm on 7/27/2021 & rated 97 points: Vice Versa weekend and dinner: Locked, loaded, and tight as a drum, the 2016 Pavie is SUCH an infant all it needed was a pacifier and its blankie to get it all set for its requisite hibernation for the next 15 years. The precision on this wine is absolutely unmatched, as is the barely budding sense of perfectly honed and pure fruit. But holy hotcakes and caviar, this sinewy boxer is all business in its current state. Academically, it’s absolutely worth experiencing, but it is nothin’ but needles on the finish, even with hours and hours of air. All that said, I absolutely loved it! I loved it in a more scholastic way to be sure, primarily because if any wine on the planet has the potential to be a gladiator after two decades have passed, its this Pavie. I wasn’t worthy to try this wine yet, but was grateful to have been given the opportunity to check it out. It’s an fistful of fruit just waiting to cluster-bomb your palate. Hold the 2016 Pavie until they do a reboot of “Top Gun 2040: A Space Odyssey.” 95-97+ points. (10028 views) | | Tasted by watcheslover on 10/8/2020 & rated 93 points: Pas mieux (8524 views) | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 9/26/2019 & rated 99 points: Inky in color, the wine is powerful, dense, concentrated, full-bodied and packed to the gills with its unique blend of flowers, crushed stone, smoke, licorice, espresso and very ripe plums and black cherries. Thick and rich, with a finish that does not want to quit, this attention-seeking beauty demands at least 10-15 years in the cellar before it's ready for prime time drinking. (8530 views) | | Tasted by watcheslover on 2/7/2019 & rated 95 points: Encore une fois déçu, comme souvent avec ce château, grandes promesses en primeurs et ensuite ça redescend. Je ne suis pas sûr qu'il mérite vraiment d'être classé 1er crû A, quand on goute les autres à côté.... (7870 views) | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 4/29/2017 & rated 99 points: Inky in color, the wine is pure silk and velvet. The reduction of new oak and the increase of the Cabernets really make a difference. Rich, dense, plush and pure, there is a sweetness to the fruit and complexity that moves the wine from red to black again and again. Made from a blend of 60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine reached 14.5% with a pH of 3.49 and the harvest took place October 10 to October 20. (9399 views) |
| By Panel Tasting Decanter, St-Emilion 2016: panel tasting results (3/4/2023) (Château Pavie, Merlot, St-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (5/31/2022) (Château Pavie St.-Emilion, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW JancisRobinson.com (5/31/2022) (Ch Pavie St-Émilion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW JancisRobinson.com (1/22/2020) (Ch Pavie St-Émilion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck JebDunnuck.com, Bordeaux 2016: Firing On All Cylinders (2/28/2019) (Chateau Pavie Red) Login and sign up and see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (1/21/2019) (Château Pavie St.-Emilion, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni Vinous, 2016 Bordeaux…It’s All In The Bottle (Jan 2019) (1/2/2019) (Pavie Pavie Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin Vinous, The DBs: Bordeaux 2016 In Bottle (Jan 2019) (1/1/2019) (Pavie Pavie Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack Winedoctor, December 2018 (12/1/2018) (Château Pavie St Emilion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Brook Decanter, Bordeaux tastes of change: Brook's comparison: A great St-Emilion, announcing a very recent change of style (5/29/2018) (Château Pavie, St-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (3/29/2018) (Château Pavie St.-Emilion, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni Vinous, 2016 Bordeaux: It’s Now or Never, Baby (Apr 2017) (4/17/2017) (Pavie Pavie Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW JancisRobinson.com (4/7/2017) (Ch Pavie St-Émilion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (4/4/2017) (Château Pavie St.-Emilion, Red, France) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jane Anson Decanter, Bordeaux En Primeur 2016 St-Émilion Part 1 (4/2/2017) (Château Pavie, St-Émilion, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Chris Kissack Winedoctor, April 2017 (4/1/2017) (Château Pavie St Emilion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Neal Martin Vinous, Southwold: 2016 Bordeaux Blind (Aug 2020) (Pavie Pavie Red) Subscribe to see review text. | NOTE: Scores and reviews are the property of Decanter and JamesSuckling.com and JancisRobinson.com and JebDunnuck.com and Vinous and Winedoctor. (manage subscription channels) |
| Château Pavie Producer website - Read more about Chateau Pavie The vineyard on weinlagen-infoRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
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2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest" 2019 vintage reports 2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage." 2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
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"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman "The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanLibournais Libournais (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) - Read more about St. Emilion and its wines - Read more about Pomerol and its wines
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 B 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..?St. Émilion Grand Cru Les Vins de St. Émilion (Syndicate Vitocole de Saint-Emilion) – Read about St. Emilion
Vins de Bordeaux: Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot Soil: Sandy soils with alluvial gravel deposits Surface Area: 4,160 ha |
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