2016 Chateau Pavie

Red Bordeaux Blend

France / Bordeaux / Medoc  / Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

$365
JD 99
RP 100
V 98
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Saint-Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé A

2016 Chateau Pavie – Premier Grand Cru Classé A Power from Saint-Émilion

The 2016 Chateau Pavie captures the essence of Saint-Émilion’s limestone terroir in one of the Right Bank’s most celebrated vintages. This Premier Grand Cru Classé A wine offers immense structure and depth, crafted with the precision and boldness that have come to define modern Pavie.

Tasting Notes

Concentrated aromas of black cherry, licorice, and violet are layered with hints of graphite, truffle, and cedar. On the palate, the wine is dense and powerful, yet remarkably refined—offering cassis, dark chocolate, and tobacco leaf carried by firm tannins and a mineral-driven, persistent finish.

Winemaking & Vineyard Details

The 2016 vintage is a blend of **60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon**, sourced from Pavie’s high-elevation limestone slopes. The wine was aged for **up to 24 months in 80% new French oak barrels**, with strict vineyard selection and low yields to preserve power and purity. Pavie’s location and soil type deliver a signature balance of freshness and concentration.

Investment & Collectibility

The 2016 Chateau Pavie is one of the estate’s most complete and age-worthy wines. With high scores from every major critic and limited availability, it continues to be a prized acquisition for collectors. Perfect for your collection.

Vintage Specifics & Accolades

The **2016 vintage** in Bordeaux was exceptional, especially on the Right Bank, delivering wines with energy, clarity, and aging potential that rivals the greatest years.

  • 100 pointsRobert Parker’s Wine Advocate
  • 98 pointsVinous
  • 97 pointsWine Spectator

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JD 99

Jeb Dunnuck

Turning the dial up considerably, the 2016 Château Pavie leaps out of the glass with a thrilling bouquet of crème de cassis, toasty oak, graphite, white truffle, crayons, and flowers. A blend of 60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon brought up in 85% new French oak (the new oak has been dialed back in recent vintages), this full-bodied Pavie is made in a more elegant, seamless style compared to prior great vintages, yet it still has brilliant depth of fruit and concentration, ripe, present tannins, a seamless texture, and an awesome finish. Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck, Issue date: February 2019. Drinking window: 2023 - 2073.
RP 100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Pavie a blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc. Very deep purple-black in color, it needs a little coaxing to begin, slowly unfurling to reveal a fragrant perfume of violets, chocolate-covered cherries, crushed blueberries and eucalyptus over a core of preserved plums, kirsch, black raspberries and crème de cassis plus hints of licorice and chargrilled meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has a solid foundation of firm, super ripe, grainy tannins and seamless freshness interknit with the black fruit preserves and minerally layers, finishing very long and very decadent. Superb! Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Issue date: March 2019. Drinking window: 2021 - 2060.
V 98

Vinous

(Rating: 98+). The 2016 Pavie is simply magnificent. Gracious, perfumed and exquisitely beautiful, the 2016 has it all. I can't remember seeing a Pavie with this much translucent energy and nuance. Black cherry, plum, lavender, spice and menthol all infuse this explosive, young wine with tremendous character. In the glass, the 2016 is vivid, aromatically deep and full of saline-infused energy. It is without question one of the wines of the vintage. As it turns out Gerard Perse also opened the 2008. Although the two vintages (2016 and 2008) in question are quite different in style and quality, the trajectory Pavie has taken in recent years is evident. The 2016 is a thrilling wine. That's all there is to it. The blend is 60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. Tasted two times. Reviewed by: Neal Martin, Issue date: December 2018. Drinking window: 2026 - 2056.

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To protect wine quality, all orders are packed in EPS foam shippers with gel packs when necessary. During warmer months, we recommend selecting Next Day Air service. If Ground shipping is selected during high temperatures, a signed waiver may be required to release us from liability due to heat exposure.

For OWC (Original Wooden Case) orders, bottles are removed and shipped in foam for safety. The wooden case ships separately via Ground unless otherwise requested.

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We also offer complimentary temperature-controlled storage for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. Select the “Hold for Weather” option at checkout and we will coordinate shipping at a later date.

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JD 99

Jeb Dunnuck

Turning the dial up considerably, the 2016 Château Pavie leaps out of the glass with a thrilling bouquet of crème de cassis, toasty oak, graphite, white truffle, crayons, and flowers. A blend of 60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon brought up in 85% new French oak (the new oak has been dialed back in recent vintages), this full-bodied Pavie is made in a more elegant, seamless style compared to prior great vintages, yet it still has brilliant depth of fruit and concentration, ripe, present tannins, a seamless texture, and an awesome finish. Reviewed by: Jeb Dunnuck, Issue date: February 2019. Drinking window: 2023 - 2073.
RP 100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Pavie a blend of 60% Merlot and 40% Cabernet Franc. Very deep purple-black in color, it needs a little coaxing to begin, slowly unfurling to reveal a fragrant perfume of violets, chocolate-covered cherries, crushed blueberries and eucalyptus over a core of preserved plums, kirsch, black raspberries and crème de cassis plus hints of licorice and chargrilled meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has a solid foundation of firm, super ripe, grainy tannins and seamless freshness interknit with the black fruit preserves and minerally layers, finishing very long and very decadent. Superb! Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Issue date: March 2019. Drinking window: 2021 - 2060.
V 98

Vinous

(Rating: 98+). The 2016 Pavie is simply magnificent. Gracious, perfumed and exquisitely beautiful, the 2016 has it all. I can't remember seeing a Pavie with this much translucent energy and nuance. Black cherry, plum, lavender, spice and menthol all infuse this explosive, young wine with tremendous character. In the glass, the 2016 is vivid, aromatically deep and full of saline-infused energy. It is without question one of the wines of the vintage. As it turns out Gerard Perse also opened the 2008. Although the two vintages (2016 and 2008) in question are quite different in style and quality, the trajectory Pavie has taken in recent years is evident. The 2016 is a thrilling wine. That's all there is to it. The blend is 60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. Tasted two times. Reviewed by: Neal Martin, Issue date: December 2018. Drinking window: 2026 - 2056.

2016 Chateau Pavie – Premier Grand Cru Classé A Power from Saint-Émilion

The 2016 Chateau Pavie captures the essence of Saint-Émilion’s limestone terroir in one of the Right Bank’s most celebrated vintages. This Premier Grand Cru Classé A wine offers immense structure and depth, crafted with the precision and boldness that have come to define modern Pavie.

Tasting Notes

Concentrated aromas of black cherry, licorice, and violet are layered with hints of graphite, truffle, and cedar. On the palate, the wine is dense and powerful, yet remarkably refined—offering cassis, dark chocolate, and tobacco leaf carried by firm tannins and a mineral-driven, persistent finish.

Winemaking & Vineyard Details

The 2016 vintage is a blend of **60% Merlot, 22% Cabernet Franc, and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon**, sourced from Pavie’s high-elevation limestone slopes. The wine was aged for **up to 24 months in 80% new French oak barrels**, with strict vineyard selection and low yields to preserve power and purity. Pavie’s location and soil type deliver a signature balance of freshness and concentration.

Investment & Collectibility

The 2016 Chateau Pavie is one of the estate’s most complete and age-worthy wines. With high scores from every major critic and limited availability, it continues to be a prized acquisition for collectors. Perfect for your collection.

Vintage Specifics & Accolades

The **2016 vintage** in Bordeaux was exceptional, especially on the Right Bank, delivering wines with energy, clarity, and aging potential that rivals the greatest years.

  • 100 pointsRobert Parker’s Wine Advocate
  • 98 pointsVinous
  • 97 pointsWine Spectator

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