{"product_id":"chateau-pavie-1976","title":"Chateau Pavie Saint-Emilion 1976 AOC 0,75l","description":"\u003cp\u003ePavie takes its name from the peaches once grown on this south-facing slope, and the vineyard climbs the limestone côte on the edge of the town of Saint-Émilion itself. In 1976 it belonged to the Valette family, who held it for most of the twentieth century and made a cool, restrained wine quite unlike the powerful style the estate became known for after it changed hands in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe growing season was extreme: a drought summer of record heat across France, then September rain. On the Right Bank, where Merlot ripens early, a good deal of fruit came in before the worst of it, and the wines are round and forward rather than long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bottle of Valette-era Pavie is now a small piece of Saint-Émilion history — the wine as it was made before the estate was bought, rebuilt and eventually promoted to the top rank of the classification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château Pavie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1976\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Saint-Émilion AOC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 75cl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bordeaux, France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere it is likely to be now.\u003c\/strong\u003e A soft, early-maturing vintage now fifty years old, so expect a gentle, tertiary wine at best; it is offered as a collector's bottle without a promise of how it will drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it suits.\u003c\/strong\u003e A fiftieth-birthday bottle for someone born in 1976, and a good one for a wine drinker who already knows the modern Pavie and would enjoy the contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Graded good by the merchant, covering label, capsule and fill together — ordinary traces of a long cellar life, nothing suggesting the bottle has been disturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bought to order from a professional European merchant. We check fill, label and capsule when the bottle reaches us and photograph it before it ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in 7 to 10 working days, tracked. Transit cover can be added at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold as a collectible item, as seen. No guarantee is given on drinkability.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--anno-tpl-3--\u003e","brand":"Château Pavie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58326652158296,"sku":"ANNO-000903","price":545.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6505\/6856\/files\/Chateau-Pavie-Saint-Emilion-1976-AOC-075l.jpg?v=1790689484","url":"https:\/\/anno.wine\/products\/chateau-pavie-1976","provider":"ANNO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}