2018 Château Pavie

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 97 points

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  3/29/2024 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 96 Points

  Full bodied and modern. Ripe dark plum, milk chocolate, sage and mineral. Structured but approachable and possibly the best/leat wood influenced Pavie I’ve had. Still the wood is there but nothing is too much. Likely best in 5 years or so to fill out the center palate.

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  2/21/2024 - SWHighlander Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Great wine! Still a little early for this wine to show best, but still approachable and enjoyable now. Will be better in 5 years. Maybe I’d score the 98-100 points that several critics gave it? Bountiful black fruit in a New World style but some of the acidity more of classic Bordeaux, if a bit less in 2018 than some years. One of the favorites of the night of first growths from both sides of the Gironde.

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  7/3/2023 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Blind Tasting at Mi Casa: Dark, brooding wine. Dark chocolates, blackberries, some earthy driven notes in the mix. Probably a more classic BDX style as opposed to some others that have gone a bit more modern in style, which I also love. St. Emilion along with Pomerol and Margaux are probably my favorite regions. I have not had many great Paulliac wines, but my experience is much more limited here. Very Very young and would like to try this in 5-10 years.

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  7/3/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Blind pinot tasting (The Sumoba compound): Aromas of fresh dark red berries, a nice restraint on the fruit, forest floor, and underbrush like gentle stems.
  
  Flavors of dark fruits, shaved pencil lead, dried minerals on wet damp earth, and a bit of bramble as well to add complexity. Graphite notes are light and powdered, and minerals leans more toward big, stony rocks.

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  7/18/2022 - csimm wrote: 98 Points

  If you long for grandma’s hope chest filled with cigarette butts and old dusty diaries with yellow-stained pages, then best venture elsewhere, because this vintage of Pavie is front-loaded with super fresh fruit with striking purity and even more captivating depth, especially for such a young pup.
  
  “GET OFF THE LAWN” types will decry modernity here because this thing has a pulse that pumps out luscious fruit without first punishing you with a lashing of astringent tannins (looking at you 2016 Pavie - boy was that monster tiiiiight!). That said, this 2018 not a fruit bomb or a Napa wannabe, so let’s all take a breath. The frame and finish are aptly and correctly dry, with perfect acidity to keep the speed in direct sequence with the core fruit. Baskets of freshly washed dark berry notes work well with licorice, spicebox, anise, and subtle cedar and earth elements, keeping it all in judicious form. This is both a giving and an exacting wine, especially considering how young it is. Intensity is met with saturating yummy concentration. Obviously full depth isn’t there yet and the flavors are primary, but lordie this is a good one. The pick-up on this is lovely.
  
  Of course everyone reading this should hold their bottles for at least another 6-7+ years to start (probably closer to 9-10 years), but right now, it’s a fun ride. Shows no signs of shutting down, but ya never know with these puppies when they decide to take a hard left for a bit of time.
  
  Right up my alley. I dig it. 98++ points.

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