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Pavie 2010 a ‘perfect’ 100
Pavie’s 2010 has been up-graded to a “perfect” 100-points by Robert Parker in the latest issue of The Wine Advocate.
Two small verticals of Pavie and fellow Saint-Emilion “A” cru classé Angelus were included in the magazine and Pavie’s 2010 was the biggest “winner”, rising from 98 to 100-points. Pavie now has four wines with 100 Parker points since 1989: the 2000, 2005, 2009 and 2010 – only Haut-Brion, with three, comes close.
Angelus however had more upgrades (six) overall, while Pavie had just the one and, particularly among its ‘90s and early ’00s vintages, suffered five small downgrades to Angelus’ three.
The 2003 wines from each estate were downgraded, Pavie from 99-points to 96 and Angelus from 99 to 98. The Pavie example had even been upgraded from 98+ to 99 in August last year. As Parker noted, it was a wine, “born under considerable controversy, receiving accolades and kudos from me and several of my American colleagues, but generally excoriated by the British press.”
The risers and fallers can be seen in the chart below:
It was recently noted that despite both being elevated to cru classé “A” status in 2012, Pavie was generally struggling and on average its prices were closer to a Saint-Emilion “B” cru classé than “A”.
Indeed, its newest 100-pointer is £2,400 a case – the same as Angelus which is 99+. With buyers increasingly returning to the 2010s, is Pavie set for big things? Or, as Liv-ex asks, do these scores only really confirm what the market already knows?