Pavie Decesse 2021 (3.0L)

92-93 JS / 92 JA / 90-92 VM

A tight and focused red with blackberry, black-olive and white-pepper character. It’s medium-to full-bodied with a racy structure and fine yet slightly chewy tannins. Energetic. - James Suckling

This feels highly extracted, with bitter chocolate and grilled coffee beans. Not always easy to keep to estate signature in 2021, but they have very much done so, with black cherry and damson fruit, and the pumice-stone scrape of the limestone plateau. - Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

The 2021 Pavie-Decesse, where 1.5 of the 3.0-hectares was replanted in 2019, was picked on a single day - 4 October at 33.60hL/ha. It has an intense, almost flamboyant bouquet with generous black and blue fruit, hints of strawberry and incense developing in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied and a little oaky on the entry (80% new wood). Firm structure, just a slight edginess on the mid-palate with a grippy, graphite-tinged finish, here, I might have just dialled down the new oak to find more terroir expression on the finish. This will be interesting to revisit once in bottle. 14.19% alcohol. - Neal Martin, Vinous Media