Château Pavie 2024, St Emilion
IN BOND
Delivery 2027
Appellation - St Emilion
Owner - Gérard Perse
The 2024 Pavie is only 51% Merlot with 32% Cabernet Franc and 17% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Second wine – Arome de Pavie
Annual production – 100,000 bottles
TASTING NOTES
A very precise Pavie, this has a compacted palate of blue fruit as well as raspberries and hints of sandalwood. Medium-bodied with a tight, linear finish. Racy and fresh at the end. A blend of 51% merlot, 32% cabernet franc and 17% cabernet sauvignon.
95/96
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, April 2025
Deep garnet-purple colored. Comes barreling out with ready-to-go notes of red currant jelly, fresh black plums, and boysenberries, plus suggestions of tilled soil, cardamom, black olives, and lavender oil. Medium-bodied, the palate is tightly wound with intense red and black berry layers, supported by firm, fine-grained tannins and bold freshness, finishing long and minerally. Pure energy.
51% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Franc, 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, aging in French oak barrels, 65% new. pH 3.69.
95/97
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, The Wine Independent, May 2025
There is no better way to discover the power of the Pavie terroir than to see how it has peformed in 2024 - a naturally cooler and slimmer vintage, and yet you still have a wine here that has depth, energy, intensity and concentration, squid ink, fennel, oyster shell salinity. The fruit is sappy, for sure a brighter and slimmer version of Pavie compared to many vintages but this is still unmistakeable estate signature. 42ha in production, now including Pavie Decesse and Bellevue Mondotte (as of 2022). 24hl/h yield, September 27 to October 9, 3.69 pH. 65% new oak, with lower toast.
94
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com, April 2025
