Chateau Pavie Saint-Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classe A 2022 i trækasse

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.

Bettane et Desseauve

The Wine Cellar Insider - Jeff Leve

Inky, opaque, black purple in color, the explosive perfume delivers purple flowers, licorice, truffle, crushed stone, smoke, saffron, and almost 100% cocoa. The palate is painted with opulent, rich, layers of concentrated, blackberries, plum liqueur, black cherries, spice, smoke, licorice, espresso and chocolate. As dense and deep as this wine is, what is important to note is the vibrancy and freshness on the palate. That sense of lift remains from the mid-palate through to the finish. The 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 and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14.7% ABV, pH 3.71. Harvesting took place September 15 - October 1. This is the earliest harvest in the history of Pavie. Drink from 2030-2065.

Alexandre Ma

What comes to mind when you gaze upon such a deep, profound hue? A tautly muscled boxer or a Herculean strongman? Neither. What Château Pavie presents is its signature: “the most powerfully tender expression.” The once prominent hazelnut and toasty notes during En Primeur have now softened beautifully, revealing intricate layers of mulberry, blueberry, plum candy, and milk caramel upon swirling. Sometimes I wonder if Château Pavie possesses a touch of magic—it achieves extraordinary ripeness in cooler vintages, while in dry and hot years, it masterfully tempers its exuberance to craft a gentle, poetic expressions. he 2022 vintage does not assert itself with overwhelming force but rather illustrates a deeply nuanced landscape, akin to a richly layered ink painting. It stands as one of Château Pavie’s most luminous achievements in recent memory, deserving of lasting recognition.

Decanter

A mixture of dried herbs, blackcurrant leaf, blueberry, violets, vanilla and salty stones on the nose. Intense and complex, it’s upfront and mouthfilling 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...

Vinous

The 2022 Pavie turned out beautifully. Although a touch reticent post-bottling, the 2022 impresses with its notable energy and vibrancy. Dark-toned fruit, leather, spice, menthol, licorice and gravel stain the palate. The 2022 offers tons of textural intensity but without the overt weight that was once such a signature here. I can't wait to see how it ages.

Jane Anson

Steel and spliced black fruits on the opening, juicy, powerful and intense with blueberry and damson, cedar and sandalwood, a slab of dark chocolate, and an edge of oyster shell salinity. Tension, power, beauty. No Pavie Decesse, no Bellevue Mondotte as of this vintage, both are now entirely included in Pavie, and both exceptional additions. 25 years of Perse ownership. 75% new oak.

Wine Maniacs

Terre de Vins

Andrew Caillard MW

Deep crimson. Cedar, dark chocolate, musky dark plum, violet aromas. Richly concentrated chocolaty wine with ample dark berry musky fruits and paneforte marzipan cedar notes. Finishes gravelly and long. Very big wine but will develop well with its minerally notes. 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.47% alc.

The Wine Independent

The 2022 Pavie is a blend of 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon with a pH of 3.67. Yields were 31 hl/ha. Deep garnet-purple in color, it erupts from the glass with powerful notes of juicy blackberries, black currant pastilles, and wild blueberries, followed by classic hints of violets, licorice, red loam, wood smoke, and crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate delivers fantastic tension between the intense, muscular black fruit flavors and a lively backbone, framed by beautifully ripe, rounded tannins, finishing long and fragrant. Superb.