1998 Chateau Pavie Saint Emilion (From Private Cellar)
Vineyard: Château Pavie
Price: $169.95- $375.00
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Varietal: Merlot
Style: Red Wine
Region: France > Bordeaux
Other Vintages: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1995 1983 1982 1978
WINEMAKER'S NOTE
"A 50-year wine, this opaque purple-colored offering exhibits a strong, precise nose of black fruits, liquid minerals, smoke, and graphite. Extremely full-bodied, yet brilliantly delineated, powerful, and awesomely concentrated, it boasts a fabulous mid-palate as well as a finish that lasts for nearly a minute. This vin de garde requires 5-6 years of cellaring. A tour de force in winemaking, it has the potential to be the most profound Pavie ever produced, except for its two successors. Anticipat...
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  • International Wine Cellar
    Ruby-red. Sappy, liqueur-like aromas of cherry, raspberry coulis, roast coffee and exotic wood spices. Wonderfully sweet and mouthfilling, but with harmonious acidity giving shape and clarity to the flavors. Finishes quite long, with fine tannins. Not at all overextracted; in fact, here the tannins seem a bit sweeter than those of the '99. Still unfolding; this may ultimately surpass the '99.
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