Tasting Notes and Scores
Served blind at a private dinner in Bordeaux, the millennial Pavie is a brilliant Saint Emilion that just with age is developing a sense of classicism that must have a few cynics blushing with embarrassment. Decanted for a couple of hours, it offers a sensational pure bouquet with dark berries, a touch of crushed raspberry, limestone and rose petals. The palate is surprisingly reserved on the entry but builds nicely on the palate. Supremely well balanced with a very precise, refreshing finish. Over the course of two hours, this Pavie 2000 just gets better and better and better. It is just about reaching its drinking plateau where it should remain for a decade. Tasted April 2011.
– eRobertParker.com, Sept 2011
Neal Martin
Quality 950 | Brand 965 | Economics 751 |
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Quality: Above the average quality score of its peer group for the 2000 vintage, 808
Brand: We found this wine on 20 of the world's top restaurant wine lists, including Helene Darroze at the Connaught
Economics: Above its peer group average price of £188 for the 2000 vintage
Production: Higher production than its peer group average of 46,409 bottles
- www.wine-lister.com June 2017
Wine Lister
Just a powerhouse of a wine that does everything right, the 2000 Château Pavie is drinking incredibly well today, offering huge blackcurrant and chocolatey darker berry fruits as well as loads of truffly earth, tobacco, and spice. Full-bodied, deep, and concentrated on the palate, it stays flawlessly balanced, and while I suspect the acidity is quite low, it has an incredible sense of freshness and a weightless texture. Fully mature, yet in the early part of its drink window, it has another two decades or prime drinking ahead of it.
Jeb Dunnuck
Medium garnet-brick in color, the 2000 Pavie needs a little swirl to coax out fragrant notes of dried roses, cinnamon stick, red loam, and fallen leaves leading to a core of kirsch, plum preserves, and blueberry compote plus a hint of cardamom. The medium to full-bodied palate is an exercise in grace and suppleness, featuring exquisitely ripe, silky tannins and seamless freshness to frame the achingly perfumed fruit, finishing so, so long and so, so fragrant. This was the first vintage using the "Eleanor" bottle shape that Pavie is well-known for today. Lisa Perrotti-Brown Dec 2023 - The Wine Independent
Tim Atkin MW
Just beginning to come around and strut its enormous potential, this wine at age 15 has been evolving like a glacier. The wine has an inky, opaque, plum/purple color and a stunningly rich nose of mulberries, bramble berries, blackberries, licorice and incense as well as touches of toast and graphite. Fabulously concentrated and full-bodied, with a multidimensional mouthfeel, this profound Pavie is in mid-adolescence. It should evolve and continue to drink well for at least another 30-40 years. This is clearly the first compelling effort made by the Perse family.
Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #220, Aug 2015)
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