2005 Chateau Pavie Saint Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classe - 100 points 75cl / 13.5%

A bottle of 2005 Château Pavie Saint Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé from Bordeaux. Pavie is a 42 hectare estate, planted with 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, with an average production of 90000 bottles per year.

'Gérard Perse believes this is the greatest Pavie he’s made to date, although certainly I would argue that list includes the 2000, as well as the 2009 and 2010, among his superstars. This wine, which I had both in the 2005 horizontal report in the Wine Advocate, and at a mini-vertical with Perse at the restaurant Maison Boulud in Montreal, looks to be a 75- to 100-year wine. Dense, opaque purple to the rim, with a gorgeously promising nose of blackberries, cassis, graphite and cedar wood just beginning to emerge, it tastes more like a three-year-old than wine that is already a decade old. This beauty is intense and full-bodied, with magnificent concentration, a majestic mouthfeel and a total seamless integration of tannin, wood, alcohol, etc. Beautifully rich, full and multidimensional, this is a tour de force in winemaking and certainly one of the top dozen or so 2005 Bordeaux. Forget it for another 3-5 years and drink it over the following 50-100 years!'

100/100 Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (#220), August 2015

This 2005 Chateau Pavie sold at our online auction for £210