Chateau Pavie Premier Grand Cru Classe A, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 1998
Standard - 75cl
Stock location: United Kingdom
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- Vintage1998
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau Pavie
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionSaint-Emilion Grand Cru
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10138501998
- Avg. Critic Score4.3★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
The 1998 Pavie is deep garnet-brick in color. So much fruit comes charging out of the gate here: profound crème de cassis, baked blackberries and blackberry preserves with notions of beef dripping, crushed rocks, unsmoked cigar, sandalwood and dried lavender. Big, rich and beautifully impactful, it is completely packed with taut, muscular black and blue fruit preserves, maintaining nice firm grainy tannins with layer after layer of exotic spices, meat and earth notions, finishing epically long and minerally. Should easily continue to cellar for 25+ years.
- Drinking Window: 2018 - 2043
- Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
- Review Date: May 2018
The 1998 Pavie was Gerard Perse’s second vintage after buying the property and it was actually matured in 200% new oak. Now at two decades, it continues to be attired with a fresh and very attractive bouquet, blackberry, mulberry, clove and bay leaf, just a touch of Italian delicatessen in the background. I like the definition here. The palate is medium-bodied with fine delineation and a keen thread of acidity, quite classic in style with tobacco and a light seaweed influence towards the persistent finish. This is ageing supremely well and you can another 10 to 15 years of drinking pleasure here. Excellent. Tasted at the château.
- Drinking Window: 2018 - 2032
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
- Review Date: May 2018