2016 Château Pavie Decesse

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  7/26/2023 - soyhead wrote:

  Delicious and balanced , full fruited bdx on the young side but eminently drinkable

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  3/19/2023 - caesar77 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  3 hour decant in glass. Inky purple w/ dark magenta edge in color. Nose of blackberry, cassis, black licorice and granite. On the palate: intense blackberries, sweet tannins and just a hint of vanilla. Tannins were silky smooth and wine is surprisingly light weight despite the extraction and intensity of flavor. Long bone-dry finish of blackberries, plums and granite. Drank over two nights and drank very consistently despite a lot of air exposure...can probably evolve for a couple of decades in cellar but is quite enjoyable now.

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  11/6/2022 - csimm wrote: 94 Points

  This is presenting as quite the agreeable unfolding of ripe black cherry, raspberry, and blackberry flavors. Ripe and round in the middle with a requisite grip that gently squeezes the sides of the palate, finishing slightly plush; the end of the tail has enough of a whip to keep it from falling off and becoming too bulbous.
  
  It’s not karate-kicking the way it was when I last had a bottle. It’s becoming more of a smooth operator - Francofiles rejoice. I miss the intensity, but this is still quality juice of course. My points here are more subjective than usual I think. Score higher if Predator was a scary movie for you.

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  7/21/2020 - csimm wrote: 98 Points

  A lavish and decadent wave of black licorice, dark berry, and earthy plum flavors undulate across the palate as they slide into a synchronized assembly through its opening delivery. A beautiful converging drop at the midpoint of execution, showing a remarkable depth-speed combination; there is a richness here, but too a sense of weightlessness, flowing effortlessly into a back end that narrows focus and offers dark, mulch-laced earth notes that provide lift and focus to the otherwise concentrated and ripe fruit core. Finishes astutely with the requisite bit of judicious dryness on the tip of the tail that brings you right back to St. Emilion and reminds you this is not a Sloppy Joe production by any means.
  
  This wine is packed with all sorts of goodness, and though it will reward with patience, it’s a stallion in the making even in its youth. This is what I am looking for in a young St. Emilion. It has a frontal flavor profile that doesn’t snootily play around with, “I might be good, I might not be good, but your dumb ass will have to wait 20 years to see” kind of austerity, but it shows a perfectly balanced framework that makes for good bones for the future and promises heightened complexity. So ya, I’m a fan.
  
  96-98+ points. I don’t know whether to start polishing these off right now or wait 6-7 years. The Napa kid in me loves the dark flavors swirling around like bees at a BBQ. The wannabe beret-donning, discerning Frenchie in me knows complexity and further resolve are on the horizon with patience. I’d hope to think it’s a win-win either way. I know some Swami Satchidananda-types will forecast the awkward adolescent pimple-popping shutdown at some point with this wine, but I’ll just leave it as a “do what cha like and enjoy” prediction. Stellar juice here.

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  9/26/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points

  Opulent, rich, ripe and already allowing some of its floral, licorice, dark cherry and smoky plums to poke through, the wine is full-bodied, concentrated and will request 7-8 years in the cellar, or more, before its fully developed.

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