We have some rare half bottles of Aux Guettes from the great, Pavelot, which is one of the best producers in Savigny-les-Beaune, with complex and beautifully balanced wines that never lose track of their elegance. This wine comes from a 1.48-hectare plot, with 70% planted in 1980 and the remaining 30% in 1999. The vines are planted on shallow limestone soils on a steep south-facing slope forcing the roots to dive deep into the bedrock for water and nutrients. Farming practices here are lutte raisonnee but push towards organic as much as possible. This is 100% destemmed before vinification; this spends 12 months in a barrel, with 25% being new oak. The shallow soils and pure lack of nutrients create naturally low yields, and Aux Guettes sees the lowest yields of all Pavelots vineyards.
John Gilman 92+ points! "The 2020 Guettes from Hugues Pavelot is a fine bottle in the making, as the wine avoids those hints of sur maturité that can be found in the Bressandes and les Lavières. The bouquet is ripe, but pure and precise at the same time, offering up notes of cassis, dark berries, bitter chocolate, a beautiful base of soil tones, pigeon, vanillin oak and a touch of menthol in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with a sappy core of black fruit, lovely soil undertow, ripe, fine-grained tannins and a long, focused and complex finish. This is going to be lovely."
Vinous (Neil Martin) 91-93 points! "The 2020 Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Guettes 1er Cru has a taut and crisp bouquet with black cherries, touches of menthol and violet, opulent yet showing more delineation than some of Pavelot’s other cuvées. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins counterbalanced by a fine bead of acidity, lightly spiced with a cohesive finish. Very fine. (Drink between 2024-2040)"
Burghound 91-93 points! "This also very ripe yet avoids being over the top with its liqueur-like aromatic profile of spiced black cherry, cassis and sauvage hints. There is both excellent volume and freshness to the dense and, somewhat unusually, more refined medium weight flavors that tighten up on the youthfully austere, complex and lingering finale."
2020 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Aux Guettes 375ml
2020 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Aux Guettes 375ml
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We have some rare half bottles of Aux Guettes from the great, Pavelot, which is one of the best producers in Savigny-les-Beaune, with complex and beautifully balanced wines that never lose track of their elegance. This wine comes from a 1.48-hectare plot, with 70% planted in 1980 and the remaining 30% in 1999. The vines are planted on shallow limestone soils on a steep south-facing slope forcing the roots to dive deep into the bedrock for water and nutrients. Farming practices here are lutte raisonnee but push towards organic as much as possible. This is 100% destemmed before vinification; this spends 12 months in a barrel, with 25% being new oak. The shallow soils and pure lack of nutrients create naturally low yields, and Aux Guettes sees the lowest yields of all Pavelots vineyards.
John Gilman 92+ points! "The 2020 Guettes from Hugues Pavelot is a fine bottle in the making, as the wine avoids those hints of sur maturité that can be found in the Bressandes and les Lavières. The bouquet is ripe, but pure and precise at the same time, offering up notes of cassis, dark berries, bitter chocolate, a beautiful base of soil tones, pigeon, vanillin oak and a touch of menthol in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with a sappy core of black fruit, lovely soil undertow, ripe, fine-grained tannins and a long, focused and complex finish. This is going to be lovely."
Vinous (Neil Martin) 91-93 points! "The 2020 Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Guettes 1er Cru has a taut and crisp bouquet with black cherries, touches of menthol and violet, opulent yet showing more delineation than some of Pavelot’s other cuvées. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins counterbalanced by a fine bead of acidity, lightly spiced with a cohesive finish. Very fine. (Drink between 2024-2040)"
Burghound 91-93 points! "This also very ripe yet avoids being over the top with its liqueur-like aromatic profile of spiced black cherry, cassis and sauvage hints. There is both excellent volume and freshness to the dense and, somewhat unusually, more refined medium weight flavors that tighten up on the youthfully austere, complex and lingering finale."
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