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Château Pavie, St. Émilion Grand Cru, FR, 2022 (MAGNUM)

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2022 Château Pavie, Saint-Émilion Grand Cru — 100 pts Jeb Dunnuck, 97 pts James Suckling & Vinous. Cassis, blackberry, violet, graphite, & espresso aromas lead to a powerful yet seamless palate with velvety tannins, exceptional depth, & a remarkably long

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The 2022 Château Pavie is one of the most celebrated wines of the legendary 2022 Bordeaux vintage and among the finest ever produced by Gérard Perse. The blend is 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, incorporating for the first time fruit from the former Pavie-Decesse and Bellevue-Mondotte vineyards. Critics praised its extraordinary concentration, precision, and aristocratic balance.

Professional Ratings

Critic	Rating
Jeb Dunnuck	100 Points
James Suckling	97 Points
Antonio Galloni (Vinous)	97 Points
Wine Spectator	96 Points
Decanter	95 Points

Tasting Profile

Aromatics

Cassis and blackcurrant
Blackberry
Violet and floral notes
Graphite and crushed stone
Espresso roast
Chalky minerality

Palate

Full-bodied and intensely concentrated
Velvety, ultra-fine tannins
Layers of dark fruit and mineral complexity
Powerful yet remarkably precise
Exceptional balance and freshness

Finish

Long, seamless, and palate-staining
Lingering cassis, graphite, floral, and mineral notes
Built for 30–40+ years of aging

Jeb Dunnuck described it as "pure, powerful, yet aristocratic," highlighting its flawless balance and great finish.

Sommelier Presentation Note

2022 Château Pavie, Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
A profound Right Bank Bordeaux from the exceptional 2022 vintage, offering aromas of cassis, blackberry, violets, graphite, and espresso. Richly concentrated yet impeccably refined, the palate reveals extraordinary depth, velvety tannins, and remarkable precision, culminating in a long, seamless finish.

Jeb Dunnuck

Review Date: 02/2025

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.

Decanter

Review Date: 01/2025

A mixture of dried herbs, blackcurrant leaf, blueberry, violets, vanilla and salty stones on the nose. Intense and complex, it’s upfront and mouth-filling 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 depth to the finish. A charming, structured wine, full of promise. (GH)

Jane Anson

Review Date: 01/2025

Wonderfully intense and concentrated, this is an impressive Pavie, muscular, intense and well constructed. It has an exuberance to the aromatics that is striking, with incense, baked damson, milk chocolate and creamy black cherry fruits, almost overwhelming until the limestone fingerprints hit in the mid palate to add tentson and salinity, even a hint of savoury freshness. Powerful, will take the full ten years to come around. 75% new oak. Buno Lacoste consultant. First year with the inclusion of Pavie Decesse and Bellevue-Mondotte, bringing it to 42ha, which is the biggest fully classified footprint, with 30ha on the plateau. Harvest 19 to October 1. 10th anniversary of classification and 25th harvest of Gerard Perse.

The Wine Independent

Review Date: 06/2025

The grand vin from Pavie, tasted in Scotland as the wines were deemed not ready to taste by the Pavie winemaking team when I visited Bordeaux in December, is a blend of 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. The vintage is noticeable because it is the first under the new 2022 St Emilion classification, which permitted the vines of both Pavie-Decesse and Bellevue-Mondotte to be absorbed into the Pavie vineyard, signalling the end of the road for both those properties. Now it is in bottle – with its engraved ‘label’ to celebrate 25 years of Perse family ownership of the estate – the 2022 Pavie explodes with an array of rich fruit on the nose, all blackcurrant and dark griottes, all very clearly defined, backed up by a frame of crushed gravel and dark chocolate. The palate builds on this with a firm frame of rich and ripe tannins, confidently knit together, coated in dark and perfumed summer fruits, before a lengthy finish infused with ripe tannin and powdery oak. This is a superb grand vin with huge cellaring potential. The alcohol is 14.47% on analysis, with 14.5% on the label. (CK)

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Château Pavie, St. Émilion Grand Cru, FR, 2022 (MAGNUM)

Professional Ratings

Tasting Profile

Sommelier Presentation Note

Jeb Dunnuck

Decanter

Review Date: 01/2025

Jane Anson

Review Date: 01/2025

The Wine Independent

Review Date: 06/2025

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Château Pavie, St. Émilion Grand Cru, FR, 2022 (MAGNUM)

Professional Ratings

Tasting Profile

Sommelier Presentation Note

Jeb Dunnuck

Decanter

Review Date: 01/2025

Jane Anson

Review Date: 01/2025

The Wine Independent

Review Date: 06/2025

Reviews

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