Jean-Marc et Hugues PAVELOT (Savigny-les-Beaune) -- 2022 Tasted from Tank Samples and Bottle

Pavelot has long been a source of very good to excellent wines, and that continues to be the case here. Those despairing of the prices for the big-name appellations would do well to take a look at these wines.

The domaine is Jean-Marc et Hugues Pavelot, and the negociant wines are labelled Hugues Pavelot.

Hugues Pavelot

Hugues said that he started the harvest on 29 August (with the red Savigny-les-Beaune), and the first white grapes were picked the following day. Yields were a little below the maximum permitted. The Bourgogne and the village reds are completely destemmed; the premier crus have 15-25% whole clusters . Alcohols are in the 13s and there was no chaptalization.

Since 2021, the domaine has taken in 3 hectares from Domaine Écard, including Peuillets and Serpentières in Savigny, and now has 17 hectares of vines. And there is the burgeoning negociant line, as well.

In 2024, the estate will be certified organic.

All the wines tasted had been racked into stainless steel tanks to await bottling, except for the one white noted as tasted from bottle.

We start with the reds.

2022 Bourgogne

Sumptuous nose, mineral with red fruits. Part from the Pernand-Savigny-Aloxe plain (Les Goutières), with an additional quarter of the total from the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. The wine is round and full-bodied with red fruits, rust, and  minerality. (87-89)

2022 Chorey-les-Beaune   Les Beaumonts

This is a negociant wine. Round, darker fruit than the Bourgogne; ample, smooth, easy to approach. A touch of iron. (88-90)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune

Smooth, round, approachable. Silk texture. Dark fruit, a little black walnut. A little more structure than the Chorey. (88-90)

2022 Volnay

Negociant wine from several parcels. Fuller bodied and rounder than the previous, harmonious dark fruits. Light on palate. Lovely village Volnay.  (89-91)

2022 Pernand-Vergelesses   Belle Fille

Negociant wine. Round with a little more tannin showing than in previous wines. Dark fruits, dense, but smooth and silky. (89-91)

2022 Aloxe-Corton  Les Cras

Walnut nose. Round, medium-weight, elegant for Aloxe, creamy texture. (89-91)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune   1er Cru  Serpentières

Lighter body, more energy and nervosity here. Very pretty wine, good expression of Serpentières. (91-93)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune   1er Cru  Les Peuillets

More body here, dark and red fruits, more four-square for the moment than the Serpentières, but good depth and delineation.  (90-93)

2022 Beaune   1er Cru   Bressandes

Round, light, good purity, red fruits, good length, none blockiness that one can find in many other wines from this vineyard, good finesse. (91-94)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune   1er Cru  Les Guettes

Light, fresh, energetic, good depth, red fruits, lively. (92-94)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune   1er Cru  Les Lavières

Floral nose. Dark berry fruit, good energy, medium-light, long in mouth, freshness, good structure. (92-94)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune  1er Cru  Gravains

Floral nose, maybe even some lavender to go with raspberry. Medium-light on palate, good freshness, dark fruits with some red. Good penetration and energy. (92-94)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune   1er Cru  Dominode

Crystalline dark fruits, medium-light in weight, excellent freshness and purity. More finesse than usual for this vineyard. Forty percent of the vines are 90 years-old. A truly outstanding wine. (93-95)

Whites:

2022 Bourgogne-Hautes-Côtes de Beaune  Mont Battois 

Bottled in July 2023. This is the second vintage for Pavelot. Strong minerality in nose, mineral mouth with some roundness. A very pleasing wine, if relatively simple.  Refreshing. 87(+)/B+

2022 Chorey-les-Beaune  Clos Margot

Negociant wine. Mineral, round, not as energetic as Mont Battois, but there is depth here. Golden fruits, minerality but it is not dominant as in the previous wine. (86-88)

2022 Beaune

Negociant wine. Crisp nose, apple blossoms. Round in mouth, spiced apple, clear, crisp, good structure, freshness. Very good for a village Beaune. (88-90)

2022 Corton

Deep, floral, apple blossom/peach blossom nose. Medium-weight, dense, incipient peach fruit, good length and freshness. Excellent precision. 1.5 barrels. (92-95)

2022 Savigny-les-Beaune

Floral nose, good freshness. Round in mouth, perhaps a slight deficiency of acidity, but good clarity — half from plain (old vines), half from the Vermots lieu-dit (younger vines). Richness on the palate. (85-88)

2022 Pernand-Vergelesses   Belle Fille  

Negociant wine. Mineral with some quince fruit in nose and mouth, good density, freshness. some power here. (89-91)