Chateau Pavie Decesse Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2001 TBO A charming and food-friendly red

A charming and food-friendly red that deserves more attention than it gets

and utterly uninterested in making anything else

Great with spicy food or French cuisine

Vibrant with aromas of melon

and this is the bottling where all that hard-won knowledge gets democratized

Chateau Pavie Decesse Saint Emilion Grand Cru 2001 TBO A charming and food-friendly redPavie Decesse sits on the limestone plateau directly above its more famous sibling Chteau Pavie, and shares the same ownershipGrard and Chantal Perse, who acquired it in 1997. This is a tiny estate (just 23 acres) producing a Merlot dominant Saint milion (90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc) of remarkable density and depth. The 2001 vintage is now well into mature territory at 24 years old, with the inky concentration of the Perse style softened by time