2022 Château Pavie Premier Grand Cru Classé Saint-Emilion

The vineyard of Château Pavie is 42 hectares. It is a large entity, but contains different terroirs, each with its own microclimate. Château Pavie is often one of the last wineries to finish the harvest. They work responsibly: 70% of the vineyard is now treated organically, they aim for 100%.

Today, Gerard Perse is the man in charge. A self-made man and millionaire from Paris. The son of a painter, he took over a small grocery store in a suburb in 1976 and then achieved enormous success with franchise supermarkets for Champion (Carrefour). Until he only wanted to do wine. In 1998, after having bought a few other wineries, he bought Château Pavie. In the region, he is seen as a renouncer of Saint-Emilion wines because of the techniques he used, such as cutting off unripe bunches of grapes early to limit production and increase quality. At the time, this was considered an unheard-of waste, but today almost everyone does it. The success of his wines has improved his reputation considerably. Not only Parker, but also other international wine critics give the highest scores. And wine with a story.

The 2022 Château Pavie is a blend of 52% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc & 18 Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes come from 34 year old vines spread over 42 hectares in Saint-Emilion. The soil is divided into 3 different areas. First, you have the limestone plateau of Saint-Émilion, located about 85 meters above the Dordogne river. This consists of clay and limestone soil on limestone with sea fossils (2/3 of the vineyard). Then comes the Côte Pavie, the “mid-mountain range”, 55 meters above the Dordogne river, facing south. This consists of a brown clay-limestone soil with a fine texture. Finally, the “Pied de Côte” follows, consisting of sandy, sandy-clay and sandy-gravel soils. Prune to 8 buds for the old vines and to 6 buds for the young vines. Thinning, stripping of leaves, is adapted to each plot. The grapes are hand-picked and sorted. Vinification in temperature-controlled wooden barrels. Malolactic fermentation in barrels. Finally, the wine is matured in 75% new oak, 25% one-year-old barrels.

FACT: Under the tab: Attachment you will find the official factsheet and we will send it to you digitally when you order this wine. Also worth mentioning that we buy the (Bordeaux) wines directly and never through intermediaries because then we do not know which journeys the wine has made and how it has been treated. The wines come from the cellars of the Chateau directly to our conditioned Warehouse in Dordrecht where all our wines are stored.