750ml RED St Emilion, Chateau Pavie Grand Cru 1998

French Wine Description

97pts Lisa Perroti : The 1998 Pavie is deep garnet-brick in color. So much fruit comes charging out of the gate here: profound crème de cassis, baked blackberries and blackberry preserves with notions of beef dripping, crushed rocks, unsmoked cigar, sandalwood and dried lavender. Big, rich and beautifully impactful, it is completely packed with taut, muscular black and blue fruit preserves, maintaining nice firm grainy tannins with layer after layer of exotic spices, meat and earth notions, finishing epically long and minerally. Should easily continue to cellar for 25+ years.

French Wine Facts

• Grape Varietal: Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot
• Region: Bordeaux
• Producer: Chateau Pavie
• Body Attribute: Full-Bodied
• Volume: 750ml
• ABV: 13.5%