Arômes de Pavie 2024

Bright, a touch of sherbet, orange rind, milk chocolate, raspberry and cranberry. Super fresh and vibrant. Clean and chiselled, this is well built with freshness and crispness. It starts off well but builds to a chalky mid-palate that stops, tightens and tapers a little. Really fresh, cool mint, clove, liquorice. A touch tense on the finish, but there’s detail and such precision. You can feel the Cabernet Franc playing its part. Well built for sure, less approachable than some, but it has a good outline. A serious second wine. Ageing: 50% new oak, 50% one-year-old barrels. Yield of 22.24 hl/ha. pH 3.55.

50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc. 22.24 hl/ha. Cask sample. Attractive fruit with dark- and red-berry notes. Firm tannins and a certain tension, so some persistence, but the finish is a little hard and austere. (JL)

Balancing its elegance and freshness, you find dark cherries, espresso, mint, plums, and salty chocolate in the perfume. On the palate, it is sweet, juicy, and fresh, with energy and vibrancy to the fruits on the palate and in the finish. The wine blends 50% Merlot with 50% Cabernet Franc. 13.7% ABV. Drink from 2027-2040. 91-93 pts

Nuances of chocolate, mocha and mint on the nose. Supported by its structure, the wine shows well-integrated tannins combining roundness and character. The result is a vigorous, mouthwatering wine. An inviting wine, carried by assertive tannins and an elegant structure.

Intense and juicy, rich plum colour, huge amounts of crayon, graphite, hoisin plum, ink. Really takes things up a level in terms of 2nd wines, and I find it hard to name this as a 2024. 26hl/h yield, September 27 to October 9, 25hl/h yield. 3.55 pH. 50% new oak. Dedicated plots for Arômes since 2017,