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2007 Peter Michael Les Pavots (750ml)
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Vintage: 2007
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Peter Michael Les Pavots
Vineyard: N/A
Designation: Les Pavots
Appellation: Knights Valley
Producer: Peter Michael
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: USA
Region: California
Sub-Region: Sonoma County
Tasting note: Offering the wonderful purity of youth, this is rich and focused, with
layers of blackberry, wild berry, currant and cedar flavors.
Full-bodied, firming on the finish, where notes of cedar and mineral
join the firm tannins.—Non-blind Les Pavots vertical (March 2011). Drink
now through 2025. (95pts. JL, Wine Spectator)
Tasted: 2011
Score: 95
Drink: Now-2025
Tasting note: Vivid ruby. Youthfully backward aromas of
cassis, violet, licorice and tobacco. Chewy dark berry and bitter
cherry flavors are framed by solid tannins and complemented by smoky
mineral and sweet chewing tobacco elements. Tough to read but highly
concentrated, showing a strong finishing licorice and smoky mineral
character and a lingering cherry pit note. Give this at least a few more
years of bottle aging. (93+?pts. JR, Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar)
Tasted: May 2010
Score: 93+?
Drink: N/A
Tasting note: The 2007 Les Pavots, a Bordeaux varietal blend of 70% Cabernet
Sauvignon, 17% Cabernet Franc, 10% Merlot, and 3% Petit Verdot, is
brilliant. Its opaque purple color is accompanied by gorgeously complex
aromas of melted chocolate, espresso roast, blackberries, and cassis.
Full-bodied with a superb texture, a subtle note of oak, and fabulous
concentration, it is more reminiscent of a Right Bank Bordeaux than one
expects with this much Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend. A thirty-year
wine, its impeccable balance and the sweetness of its tannins make it
accessible already. (97 pts. Robert Parker)
Tasted: Feb. 2010
Score: 97
Drink: N/A
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