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Score 100/100 · Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, The Wine Independent, Dec 2023

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.

Critic Scores

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Average Score

100
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Robert Parker

100
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Jeb Dunnuck

More reviews and scores

96 points
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
Score 96/100 · Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider, Feb 2023

The best I have had of this in a few years showed loads of ripe, black cherries, crushed rock, dried flowers, tobacco leaf, smoke, cocoa, and licorice. Full-bodied, long, and deep, with a big mouthful of black cherries and salty plums in the finish. Drink from 2023-2040.

96 points
Neal Martin, Vinous
Score 96/100 · Neal Martin, Vinous, Jun 2021

The 2000 Pavie was tasted on two occasions. The first was from bottle at the château, where I felt it was quite sauvage and displayed more brettanomyces than I remembered. It was a peculiar showing. Then I tasted a magnum back in the UK, and this chimed more with previous bottles. Blackberry and crème de cassis feature on the nose, which is precocious and modern in style, though the new oak that once dominated this Saint-Émilion is now subsumed. The palate is full-bodied and dense, yet it does possess an alluring, silky texture. A sweet, precocious finish lingers extremely long in the mouth.

100 points
Jeb Dunnuck
Score 100/100 · Jeb Dunnuck, Dec 2020

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.

About the producer

Château Pavie - producer
Pavie

The slopes of Château Pavie were planted as far back as the fourth century by the Ancient Romans and it has been a well-known producer in Saint-Émilion since the middle of the 19th century.

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