An admirably pure and well-layered nose of plum black cherry and Savigny style earth merges into very rich and round flavors that possess excellent volume and plenty of mouth coating extract. The moderately firm tannins are well-integrated and there is so much concentration that this beautifully complex effort will drink well young or benefit from up to a decade of cellar time. - Comments: Sweet spot Outstanding ♥

The 2010 vintage will be the last for the Narbantons from Domaine Pavelot as the vines are owned by an extended family member who wishes to make the wine for themselves in the future. It is a lovely last vintage for Narbantons chez Pavelot as it offers up a complex and quite elegant nose of black cherries cassis incipient notes of game a touch of currant leaf fine minerality espresso and a discreet base of new wood. On the palate the wine is deep full-bodied and quite refined on the attack with a good core of fruit and still a bit of gas from the late malo in evidence on the long and ripely tannic finish. This will clearly be very good indeed.