In Bond Fine Wine. 2000 Château Pavie Macquin, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux, France. Premier Grand Cru Classé B • Red Bordeaux in 12x75cl. Top critic score: 95/100 (RP). Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
Chateau Pavie Macquin is a Premier Grand Cru Classé B estate in Saint-Émilion, situated on the appellation's famous limestone plateau. Founded by Albert Macquin, a pioneer in combatting phylloxera through vine grafting, the estate remains under in the family but is managed by Nicolas Thienpont, with oenologist Stéphane Derenoncourt overseeing winemaking. Pavie Macquin's wines are known for their richness, concentration, and balance, offering notes of ripe black fruit, spice, and a characteristic limestone-driven tension, minerality and freshness.
Robert Parker (RP) — 95/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 01/06/2010 · Drink 2015-2030
A beautiful crushed rock/liqueur of minerality characterizes this inky/purple-hued St.-Emilion. Tannic, with lots of pure black raspberry and black cherry fruit intermixed with a notion of charcoal as well as the aforementioned rocky/powdered stone component, this long distance runner requires another 5-6 years of cellaring. It should age easily through 2030+.
Robert Parker (RP) — 95/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 01/04/2003 · Drink 2010-2025
A wine of great density, concentration, and intensity, the opaque blue/purple 2000 Pavie Macquin needs considerable aeration, but with decanting the prodigious bouquet of graphite, camphor, blackberry, blueberry, mineral, coffee, and smoky oak finally makes an appearance. Persuasive, expansive, full-bodied, and muscular, this enormously endowed, rich wine looks set for a long life, at least three…