Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

Andreas Larsson - Tasted

Fine nuance and layers, modest oak and a great wealth of ripe dark fruit, fine spices, tobacco and a very concentrated palate with bright freshness, copious layers of super refined tannin, mouth coating and extremely persistent with abundant digest dark fruit and a tremendously long, powerful finish.

Wine Maniacs

Textually, a very complex feeling composition. It has abundant fresh fruits (a combination of red and black berries) filling in its grandly -built structure. Tannins are perfectly ripe and smooth, with vibrant lingering acidity. Some vivid fruit sensations in the middle palate, extending to a very long and linear finish.

Falstaff

Deep ruby colour with opaque core, purple reflections. Fine oak spice, dark forest berries, fresh cherries, a hint of liquorice, nuances of tangerine zest, multi-faceted bouquet. On the palate complex, juicy, ripe plums, energetic tannins, chocolatey touch on the finish, dense and lasting, spicy nuances, a powerful food wine with length and mineral finish.

James Suckling

The aromas are already exceptional, showing crushed-stone, limestone and salt character to the dark fruit and bark. It’s full-bodied, yet agile. Floats on the palate, then kicks in with loads of ultra fine tannins. The intensity and verve of this wine promises true greatness.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Composed of 50% Merlot, 34% Cabernet Franc and 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2020 Pavie weighs in with an alcohol of 14.82% and a pH of 3.61. It is aging in French oak barriques, 75% new. Opaque purple-black colored, notes of plum pudding, blueberry pie and dark chocolate-covered cherries charge out of the gate, followed closely by hints of eucalyptus, star anise, unsmoked cigars and fertile loam with a hint of cedar chest. The full-bodied palate is built like a brick house, offering very firm yet wonderfully ripe, velvety tannins and seamless freshness to support the densely laden, muscular black and blue fruits, finishing very long and with loads of mineral-laced layers. As hedonic as it is cerebral this year, it is a beautiful paradox.

Jeb Dunnuck