Le Figaro - L'Avis du Vin 18 / 20 par Club Vin le 15/05/2017 Nez de petits fruits noirs, mûre, bois exotique. Bouche fraîche, tendue, sapide, tannins amples, enrobés, jus croquant, finale longue.
Bettane & Desseauve 94 / 100 par Bettane & Desseauve le 03/05/2017 Riche, ample, suave et velouté, il possède une grande vivacité d’expression.
Wine Advocate 90-92 / 100 par Neal Martin le 02/05/2017 The 2016 Monbousquet is a blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon cropped at 38 hectoliters per hectare at 14.46% alcohol. It was picked between 6-11 October and matured in 70% new oak, the remainder one-year-old barrels. It offers an opulent but well defined bouquet of black cherries, violets and fresh fig, a little tight initially but soon unfolding in the glass. The palate is quite rich and generous on the opening with layers of blackberry and raspberry laced with graphite and a pinch of cracked black pepper. It tapers in a little towards the finish, completing a bold and assertive Monbousquet that is likely to require four or five years in bottle in order to soften those tannins. Interestingly, the sample tasted at Pavie was a little more flamboyant than the more classically styled one that I tasted elsewhere and preferred.
Vinous 88-90 / 100 par Antonio Galloni le 26/04/2017 Black cherry, plum, bittersweet chocolate, espresso and spice infuse the 2016 Monbousquet. Many of the wines in the Perse stable are made in a less extracted style than in the past. Monbousquet appears to be the exception. This is an especially pushed, voluptuous style.
matthewjukes.com 16 / 20 par Matthew Jukes le 25/04/2017 (60 Merlot, 30 Cabernet Franc, 10 Cabernet Sauvignon) | 70% new oak | 14.5% alc. Very scented with oak and some green highlights, too, this is a massive wine with insanely dry tannins and some mouth-tearing acidity. I have never really understood this property’s wines and this is no exception. So hard and so blunt, there is little fruit in evidence which is a great shame. 16++?
Jancis Robinson 17 / 20 par Jancis Robinson le 21/04/2017 Very dark purple. Rich, red fruits taken to the limit. Raspberry jam initially but rescued by freshness on the end. Great drama and a bit of alcohol on the end. Stylistically Perse rather than St-Émilion but well-done tarry end.
Wine Enthusiast 93-95 / 100 par Roger Voss le 19/04/2017 Barrel Sample. The home of Pavie owner Gerard Perse is on the Saint-Emilion plain, classified as a Grand Cru Classé in a recent re-classification of Saint-Emilion estates. This wine is richly concentrated, powered by both fruit and tannins in equal quantities. It should age well over the long term.
Wine Spectator 93-96 / 100 par James Molesworth le 10/04/2017 This is packed with fig, boysenberry and raspberry fruit flavors that keep cascading over one another while enticing anise and plum cake notes fill in throughout. Gorgeous mouthfeel, with a creamy, rounded edge, yet never giving up a generally racy and focused feel.—J.M.
Jamessuckling.com 94-95 / 100 par James Suckling le 05/04/2017 This is very layered and firm with beautiful tannins and richness. Full-bodied, tight and spicy with lovely depth. Refined and pretty.