Aromes de Pavie 2022

A lush, polished style, with cassis and warm plum sauce notes that have melded with a backdrop of melted licorice and mocha. Offers more bling than genuine range but will have its fans for sure. Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now through 2030.

Incredibly intense and exotic aromatics – ripe purple fruits, damsons, plums, blackcurrants, and floral notes. Rich red‑purple hue. Layers of coffee, milk chocolate, vanilla, and clove. Silky yet textured, almost chewy but in a delightful way, filling the mouth with acidity and pure fruit. Bouncy, charming, and well balanced, with a serious core beneath its playful energy. A long, stylish, and precise finish, with wet‑stone minerality and a touch of cinnamon and clove recalling the vintage’s warmth. Flawlessly executed.

This is extremely aromatic with raspberry and cherry character. Vivid. Full-bodied with really fine tannins that are polished and very long. Fills your mouth. Plenty of fruit but not overwhelming. Creamy texture at the end. Give this three or four years to come around.

The 2022 Arômes de Pavie is a very serious wine. Hints of cinnamon, orange peel, cedar, new leather and spice confer an exotic quality that is impossible to miss. Aromatic and deep, yet also wonderfully light on its feet, Arômes de Pavie is everything a second wine should be. It offers a good look at the style of the Grand Vin but with greater immediacy. That's pretty much all I can ask for.

Already charming to drink, the wine pops with its notes of flowers, spice, licorice, mint, and red berries with touches of chocolate in the nose. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, forward, and creamy, with ample, sweet, ripe, lifted fruits in the finish. Aromes de Pavie is no longer the second wine of Pavie because all of the fruit emanates from a specific 11-hectare parcel, so it should be looked at as its own brand. The wine blends 50% Merlot with 50% Cabernet Franc. Drink from 2025-2040.

Deep dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, subtly brighter at the rim. Delicate hints of cocoa and nougat, inviting dark forest fruits, ripe cherry, a hint of liquorice, a fine touch of noble wood in the background. Complex, taut, ripe cherry fruit, some cassis, vivid, supporting tannins, chalky minerality. A cool, elegant style, with very good length. A serious food companion with very good ageing potential.

An even split of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, the 2022 Aromes De Pavie is deeper ruby/plum-hued and has a rocking nose of red and black fruit intermixed with smoke tobacco, chocolate, graphite, and sappy herbs. It's wonderfully pure, has full-bodied richness, a real sense of limestone-like minerality, and a great finish. This brings richness and depth as well as length, elegance, and freshness. It will keep for two decades.

50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc, 14.55% ABV, 28 hl/ha. Intense, pure blueberry-driven bouquet with licorice, dried lilac blossoms, iris, and blueberry juice. On the powerful, dense palate with silky texture, impressive extract concentration and supporting vibrancy, tightly focused. In the concentrated finish: wild cherry, dark precious wood, and finely powdery astringency.

A dedicated plot of vines on the plateau set aside for this wine to ensure the DNA. Still tight, lots of density and a smoky, grilled character. This was opened two hours before tasting and yet needs a good 30 minutes in the glass to show its mandarin peel, blueberry, cassis and blood orange nuance. Umami soy and broth hints; this is textured and good quality. Give it a few years in bottle to soften. Perse family owners, 50% new oak for ageing.

On the nose, a multitude of sappy, fresh, fragrant flowers: tulips, wallflowers, and tuberoses. That sapid character returns on the palate, with a saline edge and a lively, taut structure. The wine is fresh and juicy, offering great energy, before finishing on a serious finale with delightfully gripping tannins.

Even if the élevage dominates the conversation—at least at first—the bouquet also reveals fruity and floral nuances, followed by a mineral touch. On the palate, the wine clearly sets itself apart from the nose. It is focused on finesse and freshness, with an evident priority given to finesse and precision. Rather slender, Arômes de Pavie unfolds in one smooth stroke, without a hitch. It can rely on velvety tannins that provide structure and even freshness. The latter is reinforced on the finish, where a saline note appears. A wine that paves a royal way for its big brother!

Lovely fruity, textured nose. It shows a graphite edge, a delicate infusion-like character, a touch of creamy freshness, and fine-grained finesse. You’ll find notes of fresh wild blackcurrant, lily/lilac, concentrated wild blueberry and, more subtly, strawberry, with hints of camphor and chocolate/tonka bean, as well as fine touches of fresh sweet spice. The palate is fruity and balanced, offering freshness, a bright acid spine, juiciness, lively energy, fresh-driven power, breadth and volume, some flesh, and a vibrant feel. Superb, carrying freshness. On the palate, the wine delivers notes of pulpy/juicy blackcurrant, crushed blackberry and, more subtly, violet, with touches of crushed redcurrant, hints of tonka bean, toast, a note of roast, and a subtle hint of pepper and cardamom. Pleasant, firm bitterness on the finish. The tannins are fresh. A coffee/roasted undertone in the background.