Robert Parker Wine Advocate

While the 2019 Pavie does display a touch more restraint that the wines produced here a decade ago, it remains one of the most powerful, extracted wines in all of Bordeaux, exhibiting a glass-staining, opaque purple-black color and a rich bouquet of cherries, blackberries and berry fruit liqueur mingled with sweet spices, loamy soil, licorice and rose petals. Full-bodied, powerful and muscular, it's thick and textural, with a layered, multidimensional mid-palate laden with ripe fruit and rich, chewy tannins, concluding with a long, youthfully grippy finish. The evolution of the early Pese-era wines at age 20 leads me to suspect that time will be kind to this 2019, but couldn't this great site—which naturally delivers elevated maturity combined with low pH—be rendered with more charm and sensuality?

James Suckling

Lots of blackberry and grilled meat with earth and spice. Some smoky undertones, too. Blackcurrants. Complex. Full-bodied with round, juicy tannins, yet they turn extremely fine and very linear and go on for minutes. Great length. A blend of 50% merlot, 32% cabernet franc and 18% cabernet sauvignon. Try after 2027, but already a joy to drink.

Decanter Magazine

Such an expressive nose, especially after five minutes, dark black bramble fruits with raisins and plums on the nose alongside touches of tobacco and coffee too. Quite refined on the palate, less upfront plump fruit and chewiness, more knitted and focussed with a juicy core yet still powerful, underlying and driving. It's serious, muscular and strong, really a vein of direct fruit coated in wet stone minerality. I love the tension and acidity with the heady density of fruit and soft perfume around the edges. So much going on here. It's a bold, confident style, but overall feels well made and purposeful.

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Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

The Wine Independent

VertdeVin

The nose is elegant, racy, beautifully defined, precise and offers power, intensity in finesse, deepness, a racy power (in finesse/control). It reveals notes of ripe wild blackberry, crushed cassis, small notes of chocolate associated with touches of cardamom, crushed strawberry, toasted, fine hints of caramelization, crushed ripe almond as well as an imperceptible hint of saffron and liquorice. The palate is fruity, elegant, beautifully defined, precise, racy and offers a beautiful finesse of the grain, suavity, power (in finesse), elegance as well as a very beautiful structure, a beautiful silky/delicate touch and deepness. On the palate this wine expresses notes of ripe/juicy blackberry, juicy/ripe cassis, small notes of crushed raspberry associated with touches of small crushed violet plum, small crushed berries as well as hints of chocolate, cardamom, crushed almond, ripe hazelnut, discreet hints of zan, black tea, saffron and sweet spices. Tannins are elegant, racy, powerful but beautifully built. God length and persistence. A gourmand finish which offers sapidity with fine hints of dark chocolate and almond.

Falstaff