89 -92 points,

Burghound, April 2010

Here the nose is the most complex to this point with notes of damp earth, crushed rock to the airy and cool red pinot fruit that complements equally pure and stony middle weight flavors that display excellent precision as well as a sense of underlying tension on the firm, linear and driving finish. A classic Guettes with its firm minerality. - Comments: Sweet spot Outstanding ♥

90 points,

John Gilman, View From The Cellar, November 2009

The 2008 Guettes was also showing beautifully at the time of my visit. The bouquet is deep, complex and nicely reserved, as it offers up notes of cassis, black cherries, coffee, woodsmoke, gamebirds and a fine base of complex soil tones. On the palate the wine is medium-full, long and tightly-knit, with a fine core of fruit, lovely balance, impressive nascent complexity and fine-grained tannins that perk up the very long, classy finish that closes with notes of lingering minerality. Just a lovely bottle in the making. (Drink between 2016-2040) 90+

91 -92 points,

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, June 2010

The Pavelot 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune Aux Guettes unites saliva-inducing salinity and rich meat stock with bright, juicy berry fruits shadowed by overtones of kirsch and framboise distillates. Yet for all of its vivacity, it feels like satin. Notes of moss, damp bark, iodine, cardamom, and shrimp shell reduction add intrigue. Here is an instance where the alliance of carnal and mineral elements on expects from the best Savigny are met more than halfway by sheer fruit intensity, for a winsome and flattering performance that ought to evolve fascinatingly but remain strong for 12-15 years. --- David Schildknecht

90 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, March 2011

Bright medium red. Vibrant aromas of medicinal black cherry and violet. Dense, sweet and concentrated, with harmonious acidity giving cut and definition to the soil-driven dark fruit and mineral flavors. Classy, broad Savigny, finishing with a saline nuance and nicely supple tannins.

About Winery

Of the nearly 180 producers who produce and bottle wines from Savigny les Beaune, the estate of Jean-Marc Pavelot has earned the illustrious title of the finest wine maker in the village. After evaluating several consecutive vintages, spanning literally hundreds of samples and finished bottlings, Allen Meadows (author and publisher of Burghound) was quoted in 2004 as saying, "Pavelot is indisputably making the finest wines in the village and in particular, they age extremely well."

Moreover, the father and son team of Jean-Marc and Hugues Pavelot ensure a future of outstanding wines from their pristine, old-vine vineyard parcels through a practice known as lutte raisonnée. Essentially a practice incorporating the most practical applications as found in both biodynamic as well as traditional vineyard management, lutte raisonnée allows the flexibility to control vineyard abnormalities while avoiding undue applications to one's soil. Through this practice, the Pavelot's have consistently fashioned the most sought after, high-scoring, terroir-driven wines of the appellation for decades.

Routinely worthy of accolades reserved for wines costing twice to three times what these "humble" Savigny-les-Beaunes fetch, the wines of Pavelot are "wines worth a serious look each and every vintage. and absolutely worth your attention" - also quotes attributed to the Burghound.

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