19 WEINWISSER: "70 % Merlot, 20 % Cabernet Franc, 10 % Cabernet Sauvignon. 32 hl/ha. Nobles Kirschen- und Waldbeerenbouquet, feine Süsse, im Untergrund sehr konzentriert. Aromatischer Gaumen, sattes, aber recht feines Extrakt, viel verschwenderische Frucht, im Finale helle Schokonoten, geröstete Nüsse und Kokos, nun sehr klassisch und nicht so avantgardistisch in seiner Ausstrahlung. Ein beeindruckender Wein mit viel Klasse!"
93 WINESPECTATOR: "A very solid effort in a difficult year, showing light bay and tobacco notes out front, quickly followed by a mix of raspberry and red and black currant fruit. Shows a lightly chewy edge, along with more tobacco and bittersweet cocoa elements, on the finish. This pulls about all it can out of a wet and cool year.--Non-blind Pavie vertical (March 2017). Best from 2018 through 2025. 6,665 cases made."
17.5+ JANCIS ROBINSON: "Inky with barely a rim. Dark and firm, dry but with more freshness and the tannins a little more melted than in previous vintages. Gerard Perse described as ´more feminine´ than in the last few years, though I think he must like his women to have worked out! Lovely dark fruit. Roasted but not cooked. Dark and intense but much more. Savoury and concentrated but not the bitterness of some previous vintages. (JH) "
95 JAMES SUCKLING: "Lots of fruit and fruity and long with amazing truffles and earth and fruity with full and velvety tannins. Long, long finish. Balanced for the vintage, but very rich. Better in 2013."
96 THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "Luscious and sexy, rich and powerful, long and fresh, this has a lot going on. Full bodied and intense, the wine is still young, but it is impossible not to get all the sweetness and purity in the fruits, along with its minerality. But you need to wait another decade."
94+ THE WINEADVOCATE: "A slightly more compact style of Pavie in this vintage, but still full-bodied, the 2008 has a youthful, dense purple color and is seriously endowed with concentrated, rich fruit, licorice, graphite, forest floor, and loads of dark plum and black and red currant fruit. This wine still has some tannins to resolve, and should be cellared for another 4-5 years. Drink over the following two decades."
