Arômes de Pavie 2025

Clean and clear aromatics, full of ripe black fruit with oak touches - bitter black chocolate, smells fully ripe, almost heady with lots of black bramble fruit. Not sunny but intense aromatics for sure. Clean and crystalline, well integrated fine tannins with bright acidity and a really crisp mineral edge that leaves a chalky, flinty aspect on the finish. Fruit is cool and blue toned with crunch and a lovely weight. Still a little tense and compact but this will be nice, albeit on the slightly bigger, more heftier side for the vintage. Has a juicy core which I like but the structure is definitely at the fore right now. Ageing 50% new barrels, 50% one and two wine barrels. A yield of 18hl/ha. 3.50pH.

Fresh, fruity, elegant, forward, and loaded with sweet, ripe, red fruits, licorice, black cherries, mint, plums and salty chocolate in the perfume, and on the palate. The wine is going to need just a year, or two in the bottle. But, it also promises to age for 2 decades. The wine blends 50% Merlot with 50% Cabernet Franc. 14.2% ABV. Drink from 2028-2047. 92-94 Pts

Inky plum in colour, five-spice and olive pit, measured with a slow unroll. Very impressive, this is full of depth with a savoury swirl of oyster shell and slate, 100% limestone here compared to the Pavie soils with their powerful clay in the mix. Jean-Baptiste Pion technical director. 3.5 pH. 18 hl/ha yield.

The bouquet opens with floral notes, revealing nuances of flower stems, peonies, black pepper and then blackcurrant. Smooth on the attack, the wine shows substance and breadth. Its powerful tannins provide a perfect framework, supported by a structuring acidity. Delicate bitters on the finish further enhance not only the freshness but also the length of the finale. A muscular, precise, energetic wine that has clearly laid down its markers. Ageing will allow it to fully come into its own.

What a bouquet—you’d think you were already tasting a great wine, yet this is only the beginning: plums, blackcurrants, hints of chocolate and tobacco, floral notes; the palate is juicy, precise, powerful and remarkably concentrated, with plenty of fruit, velvety tannins, vibrant freshness and a notably long finish, ending with spicy notes over a mix of dark and red berries. A magnificent Arômes de Pavie.