Our Wines & Spirits

Robert Parker: While the Perses may think the 2005 is the summit ofwinemaking at Pavie, this vintage certainly gives seriouscompetition to both the 2005 and 2000. It is certainly the mostopulent and luxuriously rich wine Pavie has ever made (and that issaying something). Pavie’s style of low yields, ripe fruit andserious extraction does produce, even in lighter vintages, a veryconcentrated and dense wine, but in the great years, the resultsare legendary. This wine has an inky purple color and a stunninglysweet, ripe nose of mulberries, blackberries, blackcurrants,licorice and incense. The oak still has some presence in thearomatics, as well as in the full-bodied, very concentrated,skyscraper-like mouthfeel and texture. This wine feels almost as ifyou could lose your palate in it, it is so dense and deep, yet atthe same time it possesses silky tannins and rather remarkablepurity, balance, and a good 60-second-plus finish. This is anamazing wine and probably will be drinkable in 5-10 years (althoughactually it could be drunk now because of the vintage’s voluptuoustexture), and again, seems to have 50 or more years of longevity.It is clearly a modern Bordeaux legend.