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‘Breathtaking’ Pavie and L’Eglise-Clinet lead today’s releases
Another morning of releases from Bordeaux has seen a ‘breathtaking’ Château Pavie, a near-perfect scored L’Eglise-Clinet and a Giscours that slightly divided the critics.
A ‘breathtaking’ Château Pavie 2023 has been released at €234 per bottle ex-négociant, a reduction of 22% on the 2022’s opening price. It is available to the international press for £2,784 per case of 12×75, a 22.1% decrease on the £3,576 a case of the 2022’s opening price. Despite this, it is still one of the most expensive vintages of the past decade available on the market, with eh 2016, 2018 and 2020 drawing similar scores.
Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2023 also hit the market today, released at €210 per bottle ex-négociant, down 19.2% on the 2022 opening price. This wine was awarded a near perfect score by 98-100 points Neal Martin, who called it “one of the best wines of the vintage”, a fraction above Lisa Perroti-Brown’s 97-99 points – and although it is one of the more expensive vintages of the past decade currently on the market, it’s high scores mean that it also represents fair value. However, according to Liv-ex, the 2015, 2016 and 2018 offered buyers potential better value, in terms of back-vintages.
Meanwhile Pauillac’s Château Pichon Baron 2023 was also released at €103 per bottle ex-négociant, down 23.4% on the 2022 opening price.
Finally, Château Giscours 2023 – a wine that Antonio Galloni (Vinous) described as ‘the best wine [he has] ever tasted’ from the Margaux estates – has been released at €40.8 per bottle ex-négociant. Although this marks a 18.4% on the 2022 opening price – or £492 per case of 12 from the international market, down from £600 a case for the 2022 opening release – it is the second most expensive Giscours currently on the market, according to Liv-ex‘s data. It did seem to divide some of the critics though – while Jane Anson and William Kelley praised it and Galloni awarded it 96-98 points. Neal Martin gave a lower score of 90-92 points, saying it didn’t “quite have the persistence of the previous vintage”.
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