Château Pavie 1. Cru classé B St. Emilion 2009

Another brilliant effort from Gerard Perse, this great vineyard (now just over 90 acres in size with the average age of the vines 45 years) was cropped at 28 hectoliters per hectare. It obviously missed all the damaging hail in mid-May of 2009, and was harvested between October 5 and 15. Everything here is done with extraordinary gentleness and precision. The result is a powerful, full-bodied, remarkably intense wine that is black/purple in color. It will require considerable patience, much like 2000 and 2005. It displays enormous creme de cassis and boysenberry fruit with some cherries, spice box, and crushed rock in the background. It is intense, with loads of minerality, huge extraction, massive power, yet again, the vintage character seems to have given it a freshness and vibrancy despite the wine’s obvious viscosity. The minimum patience required is at least a decade, as this is another 40-year wine from Gerard Perse.
96-100/100 Punkte - Trinken: 2020-2060


70 % Merlot, 20 % Cabernet Franc, 10 % Cabernet Sauvignon, Ertrag: 28 hl/ha. Extrem dunkles Purpur mit lila und violetten Reflexen. Unerhört dichtes, kleinbeeriges Maul- und Preiselbeerbouquet, darin Amarenakirschen, ein Hauch Kaffee und parfümierte frische Kräuternoten. Am Gaumen sehr konzentriert, fette, reife, schon recht runde Tannine. Ein massiver Pavie mit viel Charakter, der mindestens 10 Jahre brauchen wird, um überhaupt einen Teil dessen zu zeigen, was wirklich in ihm steckt.
19/20 Punkte - Trinken: 2020-2055