Why this vintage
- 97/100 from James Sucklingand 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2021 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionFrost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.
Critic scores
- James Suckling97
- Vinous96
- Wine Spectator94
- Wine Advocate93
- Decanter93
The 2021 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 85/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
«Pavie se présente en puissance [...] mais en 2021 cette puissance est canalisée par une acidité saignante, qui confère au vin tonicité et jutosité.» — Mathieu Doumenge. «Preuve de son évolution, le cru 2021 signe là un brillant 2021.» — Karine Valentin. «Les nuances crayeuses et fruitées gardent le haut du pavé.» — Yves Beck.
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Blend of the 2021 vintage
Merlot(52%), Cabernet-franc(30%), Cabernet-sauvignon(18%)
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2021 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc.
Figures from the 2021 sheet
- 32.98 hl/haYield
- 33 yrsVine age
Winemaking
Cuves en bois, thermo-régulées. Fermentation malolactique en barriques.
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Ageing
75% barriques neuves, 25% barriques d'un vin
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Terroir
Limestone plateau of Saint-Émilion, 85 m above the level of the Dordogne: clay-limestone soil over astéries limestone (two-thirds of the vineyard). Côte Pavie, 55 m in altitude, facing due south: fine-textured brown clay-limestone soil. Pied de Côte: sandy, sandy-clay and sandy-gravel soils.
An offer on Château Pavie 2021
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Texts and documents 2021
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.