Came across some bottles of Ch Pavie 1994, keen to obtain - not sure of its "value"
Anyone has TN on Pavie 1994? How is this compared to Pavie 2000 that was featured in this forum a week ago ?
CHEERS
CH PAVIE 1994
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GUEST
CH PAVIE 1994
HI,
Came across some bottles of Ch Pavie 1994, keen to obtain - not sure of its "value"
Anyone has TN on Pavie 1994? How is this compared to Pavie 2000 that was featured in this forum a week ago ?
CHEERS
Came across some bottles of Ch Pavie 1994, keen to obtain - not sure of its "value"
Anyone has TN on Pavie 1994? How is this compared to Pavie 2000 that was featured in this forum a week ago ?
CHEERS
Dear Guest,
Chateau Pavie has been acquired by Gerald Perse the supermarket tycoon in 1998 and since he has been making wines without any compromise with Michel Rolland & Dr.Quinault as consultants. He has reduced the yield down to less than 1ton/per acre (3 x less of the ex-owner), picked riper, uses new oak, 9 extra mths of barrel aging, unfined and unfiltered. He also spent considerable amount of money in renovating the moldy winery. A wine merchant friend who visited his Chateau last year told me his fully air-cond. cellar was like a 5* hotel. Since 1998-2001 all his wines has been consistently lauded "Wine of the Vintage" by Parker with both Pavie & La Clusiere 2000 getting a perfect rating.
The former owner(late) Vallete has retired in Argentina farming livestock and growed Malbec.
BTW. here is Parker on the 1994 vintage: As readers may have noted, I have been critical of recent efforts by Pavie because of their lean, austere, malnourished personalities. The 1993-95 efforts offer little evidence that things have taken a turn for the better. This is a severe, light to medium-bodied Pavie lacking fruit, texture, and charm. Mouthsearing tannin in the finish ensures that this wine's fruit will never survive 8-10 years of cellaring.
Pavie's 1994 continues to be an austere, astringently-tannic, light-bodied wine with a light to medium ruby color, a stony, cherry pit fruit character, and a crisp, tart, tough-textured finish. Its undernourished feel has only become more exaggerated after a year of barrel age.
All of the wines in this segment were tasted between March 19 and March 28 in Bordeaux. Most of the important wines from both the 1994 and 1995 vintages were tasted three separate times during my ten-day stay in Bordeaux.(WA #104 Apr. 1996 - 80 points)
PAVIE 2000: Give Gerard Perse credit. People thought his numerous assurances that 2000 was the greatest Pavie ever produced were premature as well as arrogant. However, after tasting this extraordinary blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon (made from low yields of 28-30 hectoliters per hectare) six separate times in 2003, it is unquestionably one of the most monumental wines Bordeaux has ever produced. Bottled in March, 2003, about nine months later than other 2000s, the color is an opaque purple, and the bouquet offers up notes of liquid minerals, blackberries, cherries, and cassis intermixed with spice box, cedar, and white flowers. On the palate, it exhibits a massive display of richness and extract, yet with pinpoint delineation and vibrancy as well as a 60+ second finish, this is the kind of phenomenal wine that Perse's critics were afraid he might produce - a no-compromise, immortal wonder that represents the essence of one of Bordeaux's greatest terroirs. Life is too short not to own and consume the 2000 Pavie. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2050.(WA #146 Apr.2003 - 100 points)
<i>L'homme fait la difference</i>.....meaning it is the man who makes the difference.
Chateau Pavie has been acquired by Gerald Perse the supermarket tycoon in 1998 and since he has been making wines without any compromise with Michel Rolland & Dr.Quinault as consultants. He has reduced the yield down to less than 1ton/per acre (3 x less of the ex-owner), picked riper, uses new oak, 9 extra mths of barrel aging, unfined and unfiltered. He also spent considerable amount of money in renovating the moldy winery. A wine merchant friend who visited his Chateau last year told me his fully air-cond. cellar was like a 5* hotel. Since 1998-2001 all his wines has been consistently lauded "Wine of the Vintage" by Parker with both Pavie & La Clusiere 2000 getting a perfect rating.
The former owner(late) Vallete has retired in Argentina farming livestock and growed Malbec.
BTW. here is Parker on the 1994 vintage: As readers may have noted, I have been critical of recent efforts by Pavie because of their lean, austere, malnourished personalities. The 1993-95 efforts offer little evidence that things have taken a turn for the better. This is a severe, light to medium-bodied Pavie lacking fruit, texture, and charm. Mouthsearing tannin in the finish ensures that this wine's fruit will never survive 8-10 years of cellaring.
Pavie's 1994 continues to be an austere, astringently-tannic, light-bodied wine with a light to medium ruby color, a stony, cherry pit fruit character, and a crisp, tart, tough-textured finish. Its undernourished feel has only become more exaggerated after a year of barrel age.
All of the wines in this segment were tasted between March 19 and March 28 in Bordeaux. Most of the important wines from both the 1994 and 1995 vintages were tasted three separate times during my ten-day stay in Bordeaux.(WA #104 Apr. 1996 - 80 points)
PAVIE 2000: Give Gerard Perse credit. People thought his numerous assurances that 2000 was the greatest Pavie ever produced were premature as well as arrogant. However, after tasting this extraordinary blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon (made from low yields of 28-30 hectoliters per hectare) six separate times in 2003, it is unquestionably one of the most monumental wines Bordeaux has ever produced. Bottled in March, 2003, about nine months later than other 2000s, the color is an opaque purple, and the bouquet offers up notes of liquid minerals, blackberries, cherries, and cassis intermixed with spice box, cedar, and white flowers. On the palate, it exhibits a massive display of richness and extract, yet with pinpoint delineation and vibrancy as well as a 60+ second finish, this is the kind of phenomenal wine that Perse's critics were afraid he might produce - a no-compromise, immortal wonder that represents the essence of one of Bordeaux's greatest terroirs. Life is too short not to own and consume the 2000 Pavie. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2050.(WA #146 Apr.2003 - 100 points)
<i>L'homme fait la difference</i>.....meaning it is the man who makes the difference.
MC
<i>"If our life on earth is so short, why not live every day as if it were our last. This is the path to happiness and spiritual enlightenment"
Omar Khayyam 1048 -1122</b>
<i>"If our life on earth is so short, why not live every day as if it were our last. This is the path to happiness and spiritual enlightenment"
Omar Khayyam 1048 -1122</b>