Chateau Pavie 2022

Bewertungen

• 100/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  Looking at the Grand Vin, the 2022 Château Pavie is 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon raised in 75% new barrels for 20 months. It brings a more focused, precise style in its darker berries, graphite, crushed stone, and floral aromatics and flavors. These carry to a full-bodied Pavie with flawless overall balance, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. This pure, powerful, yet aristocratic Pavie will benefit from 7-8 years (you can drink it even today) and have 3-4 decades of longevity."

• 99/100

  Falstaff
  Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, tintig, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feine Nuancen von Lakritze, florale Noten, schwarze Waldbeeren, Cassis und Mandarinenzesten, einladendes Bukett. Stoffig, engmaschig, mineralisch und straff, stramme Tannine, reif und anhaftend, dunkle Frucht im Abgang, zeigt große Länge und sicheres Entwicklungspotenzial."

• 98/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  Deep, dark, intense, concentrated, powerful, long, and rich, this is an attention-seeking wine from the moment it hits your glass, with its opaque, black-purple hue. With just a swirl or two, the wine releases notes of black, red, and blue fruits, licorice, espresso, chocolate, and smoke. Surprisingly, even with this much weight, the wine is nimble, balanced, and fresh on the palate. That sense of lift remains from the mid-palate through to the finish. This is the first vintage where you find the vines from Bellevue Mondotte, and Pavie Decesse integrated into Chateau Pavie. The wine blends 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc with 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink from 2030-2065."

• 97/100

  Decanter
  A mixture of dried herbs, blackcurrant leaf, blueberry, violets, vanilla and salty stones on the nose. Intense and complex, it’s upfront and mouth-filling with chewy, fleshy tannins but lifted by vibrant acidity. Controlled power, pure fruit focus, and a joyful, crunchy texture. Salty spice, liquorice, black chocolate, and clove add depth to the finish. A charming, structured wine, full of promise."

• 96/100

  Wine Spectator
  This takes the showy fruit of the vintage and amplifies it, adding warm cocoa, melted licorice and roasted apple wood accents that fuel the core of boysenberry, plum and blackberry reduction flavors. Broad-shouldered in feel, with a deep well of fruit in reserve, this rumbles through the amply toasty finish. For the hedonist crowd. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Best from 2029 through 2045."

• 95/100

  James Suckling
  Big wine. The aromas are very opulent with blackberries, dark plums, ink and chocolate. It's full-bodied and very rich with plenty of fruit yet the tannins are fine and polished. This is a powerful and flavorful wine. Loads going on. This was the first year that included wines of Pavie-Decesse and Bellevue in the blend. Needs five years to come around."

• 17/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Thick, rich blackcurrant fruit on the nose. High but very fine tannins, as well as high acidic tension. Compact and dense. Despite the powdery tannin, there is a sense of silkiness here, and the core fruit has a clear ageing mandate. Strong tarry aftertaste."

• 17/20

  Weinwisser
  52 % Merlot, 30 % Cabernet Franc, 18 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 31 hl/ha, pH 3.67, 14.47 Vol.-%. Verwobenes blaubeeriges Bouquet, Sandelholz, Himbeerkonfitüre, Brasiltabak und Schokopastillen. Am komplexen geradlinigen Gaumen mit seidiger Textur, engmaschigem Tanninkorsett, balancierter Rasse und tiefgründigem muskulösem Körper. Im konzentrierten Finale eine Explosion mit Wildkirsche, einer vollen Ladung dunklem Graphit, Estragon und verlangender Adstringenz."