Chateau Pavie Decesse
From Saint-Emilion
| Vintage: | 2006 |
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| Description: | "Shows very floral, almost exotic fruit on the nose and palate. Full-bodied, with racy tannins and a long, silky finish. Pretty and focused. Best after 2012. –js" (ws). "Planted in pure limestone above Gerard Perse's other famous vineyard/terroir, Chateau Pavie, this 10-acre site's vines average 47 years of age. Fashioned from remarkably low yields, this blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc is a powerful, dense, tannic wine that will require considerable time to round into shape. It exhibits a dense purple color along with sweet aromas of mulberries, black currants, minerals, cold steel, graphite, and background spice. Full-bodied, highly-extracted, dense, and made in an unfashionably tannic, broodingly backward style, this is a wine for the ages. It requires 8-10 years of cellaring, and should last for 25-30+." (wa). "($225) Bright, saturated ruby. Perfumed nose combines kirsch, blackberry, licorice and violet with a pungent rocky minerality. Supple and silky on entry, then densely packed and powerful in the middle, with superb calcaire energy. For all its sweetness and intensity, this shows a brooding medicinal character and great solidity, like sucking a mouthful of rocks. A tightly coiled spring gives this wine brilliant verve and definition. The tannins saturate the entire mouth without coming off as hard or dry on the very long, rising finish. I'd forget about this beauty for a decade." (iwc). "Tannic, structured and firm, this normally, sensuously textured wine is more interesting on the nose than the palate with its earthy, espresso, cocoa, black plum, spice and stone aromatics. This is going to need to soften, and even then it might not compete with many of the more generous years. 92 points - Tasted Nov 16, 2013" (jl) |
| Price: | $ 139.95 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from Los Angeles Wine Company
| Address: |
4935 McConnell Ave. Suite #8 Los Angeles, CA 90066-6756 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 800-854-8466 |
| Telephone (regular): | 310-306-9463 |
| Fax: | 310-306-0093 |
First added to 1000 Corks on October 30, 2020.
This product was inactivated November 15, 2023.
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