2025, Château Pavie Macquin, SAINT-ÉMILION, Grand CruOwners of Pavie Macquin are Benoit Corre and Bruno Corre and Marie Jacques Charpentier. Nicolas Thienpont (of Le Pin) winemaker. The wine of Chateau Pavie Macquin at its best is rich, lush, concentrated, long with the ability to age and develop for years. 78% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Cabernet Franc Inky plum colour, a wine that I always love tasting, flinty gunsmoke reduction, full of charm and personality. Intense, concentrated, pumice

4% production

just a little gamey

espresso and dried herbs

liquorice notes offering depth and wideness - lots of terroir and grape markers in the glass - particularly the high percentage (25%) of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend

and fresh as a daisy

Quite some weight at the start of the palate

quite sensual for a Saint-Estèphe

balanced but fully charged wine in 2022

100 Jane Anson

the tannins are a little raspy and grainy giving the predominant texture and covering up the fruit pleasure

Tasted at merchants' 2022 Burgundy tastings in London

as all new wood