Château Pavie - St.-Emilion 2003
Price: $201.99
| Producer | Château Pavie |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Bordeaux |
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| Subregion | St.-Emilion |
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| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
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| Vintage | 2003 |
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| Sku | 36228 |
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The 2003 Chateau Pavie is an incredible wine, offering intoxicating aromas of blackberries, dark cherries, dried plum, pipe tobacco, madras curry, spring floral, tar, pain grille and roasted coffee. This is extremely well made with a wonderful rich yet firm texture with impressive length on the finish. A stunning wine that even a decade later is still youthful, barely showing any signs of age.
-- Int'l Wine Review: 99 points
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
Still youthful yet I'd wager at the early stages of its prime drinking window, the 2003 Château Pavie shows no signs of bricking and has a stunning – and classic – bouquet of ripe red and black fruits, smoked herbs, chocolate, and smoked tobacco, with plenty of background limestone-like minerality. This beauty is full-bodied, concentrated, and powerful, yet the balance is spot on, and it has beautiful tannins, a great mid-palate, and a thrilling finish. This is pure Pavie magic that readers will love to have in the cellar and to drink any time over the coming two decades.
James Suckling: 97 Points
This controversial wine is fresh and bright still, unlike many of the overrated 2003s. Full-bodied, tight and polished with beautiful intensity and verve. Blackberry and sweet tobacco. Wet earth. Subtle and complex. Straight and direct.
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
This is a stunner, with the warmth of the vintage marrying ideally with the relative coolness of the terroir to deliver a wide range of vivid plum, boysenberry, raspberry and cherry paste flavors that have energy and drive, carried by a long graphite note and backed by a roasted apple wood accent that has been fully absorbed. Powerfully ripe, but not heady, with a sense of poise through the finish. A jaw-dropper.
