2005 Pavie, St-Émilion

Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 2005 Pavie, St-Émilion (100JD, 100JS, 100RP, 100TWP, 97VN, 96ST, 95DC, 93JA), a quadruple 100-point wine from Gérard Perse’s celebrated estate, which he believes is the greatest Pavie he has made. Wine Advocate writes: “Dense, opaque purple to the rim, with a gorgeously promising nose of blackberries, cassis, graphite and cedar wood just beginning to emerge... This beauty is intense and full-bodied, with magnificent concentration, a majestic mouthfeel and a total seamless integration of tannin, wood, alcohol, etc... This is a tour de force in winemaking and certainly one of the top dozen or so 2005 Bordeaux. (RP)” (08/2015)