2019 Les Aromes de Pavie
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Always one of the "Second Wines of the Vintage," the 2019 Aromes De Pavie is based on 65% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon. This deep purple-hued beauty boasts a great nose of cassis, graphite, white flower, tobacco leaf, and damp earth. It shows lots of Sauvignon aromatics with its lively, floral character yet is rocking Merlot on the palate, where it's medium to full-bodied, round, and seamless. It's a great second wine that undeniably shows some mini-Pavie character.
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James Lawther MW, jancisrobinson.com
Neal Martin
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The 2019 Arômes de Pavie retains the attractiveness that I found out of barrel, offering blackberry and bilberry scents that are quite low-key for this château. The palate is well balanced with lightly spiced red fruit, salted licorice and a slightly grainier finish than the silky one I encountered before. This is a thoroughly decent Deuxième Vin and it should give a decade of drinking pleasure.
The 2019 Arômes de Pavie is a charming, inviting second wine to drink now and over the next decade. Crushed rose petal, sweet red berry fruit, mocha, dried flowers and blood orange are all nicely delineated. Like all the Perse 2019s, the Arômes is a bit nervous in feel.
About the producer
The slopes of Château Pavie were planted as far back as the fourth century by the Ancient Romans and it has been a well-known producer in Saint-Émilion since the middle of the 19th century.