The 2023 Pavie Bordeaux Blend, produced by Pavie in the Saint Emilion sub-region of Bordeaux, France, has garnered significant praise from professional reviewers for its depth, intensity, and balanced composition. This red wine, featuring a blend of 51% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Franc, and 17% Cabernet Sauvignon, demonstrates the classic characteristics of its limestone-rich terroir.

James Suckling awards the 2023 Pavie a perfect score, noting its "depth and intensity" and describing it as having an "almost weightless feel" with "energy, bright acidity and verve." Suckling highlights the wine's balance and richness, crediting the limestone soils for its low pH and vibrant profile.

Vinous' Antonio Galloni also praises the wine, scoring it between 95-97 points. He describes the 2023 Pavie as "fabulous," with "generous dark red fruit, cedar, spice, pipe tobacco, menthol, and mocha." Galloni emphasizes the wine's density and expressive nature, acknowledging that while it needs time to reach its peak, it already shows remarkable potential.

Jane Anson, giving the wine 96 points, commends its "intense and concentrated" character with notes of "damson and black cherry fruits." She also highlights the presence of "fragrant cumin and turmeric spice," which adds to the wine's complexity. Anson appreciates how the wine "speaks clearly of its limestone soils" and describes it as being "at the top of its game."

Decanter's review, which rates the wine at 97 points, describes the 2023 Pavie as having an "aromatic nose" with "pristine black and red fruits, some dark chocolate with violets, graphite, and liquorice." The review notes the wine's "succulence" and "elegance," praising its structure and layered complexity.

Jeff Leve from The Wine Cellar Insider gives the wine a near-perfect score of 99 points, highlighting its "black purple color" and "layers of black and red fruits." Leve describes the wine as "concentrated, deep, long, and intense," with a "racy mouthfeel" and a "long, expansive finish." He emphasizes the importance of precise harvesting times to achieve the wine's quality.

Jeb Dunnuck, who scores the wine 97 points, remarks on its "layered bouquet of ripe red and black fruits, spicy oak, spring flowers, and smoke tobacco." Dunnuck notes the wine's "beautiful sense of minerality" and "gorgeous finish," likening it to Pavie's 2001 vintage.

Finally, The Wine Independent's Lisa Perrotti-Brown awards another perfect score, describing the wine as "breathtaking" with "scents of blueberry pie, cassis, and preserved plums," and a "shimmering" palate with "bright, fresh black fruit layers." Perrotti-Brown praises the wine's "firm, ripe, rounded tannins" and "signature tension," concluding that it finishes "very long and very fragrant."

Overall, the 2023 Pavie is a highly acclaimed wine, noted for its complexity, balance, and expressive nature. It promises a bright future for those willing to cellar it and wait for its full potential to unfold.