TN: 1982 Château Pavie

[Baby Chickpea]

1982 Château Pavie (St.-Emilion)
From my 13C-14C / 65%-75% humidity-controlled cellar from date of release. Super long cork – only 20% saturated. Mid dark red with some brown ageing on the precipice. Even darker than the 83 Margaux had soon after! Amazing colour, like an Aussie Barossa old vine shiraz. Explosively rich nose, ripping with chocolate, caramel, oak, fantales, Aussie-like super ripe blackfruits and cassis, almost like fruit pastilles. Awesome! For first 15 minutes, the bouquet was very disjointed, redolent of Tool’s Maynard James Keenan endeavours of “finding beauty in the dissonance”. Palate has lovely balance. Not overtly complex but very easy to drink in an elegant and classy style. Length is excellent. My first reaction is: this is an under-rated wine. Close to superb. It may not get better, but many years to ride the plateau. No hints of falling over (as some have suggested). Beautiful wine, such that I polished off the bottle in 80 minutes on my own. The merlot fleshiness is lovely and tactile, soft as a young women’s inner thigh. Really delicious and well-done M. Jean-Paul Valette. Joyful stuff.
93/100

[Merino]

Have you try the recent Pavies?

[Baby Chickpea]

Too sacred of these Perse monsters and the price now counts me out unfortunately!