In Bond Fine Wine. 2003 Château Pavie Macquin, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux, France. Premier Grand Cru Classé B • Red Bordeaux in 12x75cl. Top critic score: 95/100 (RP). Drinking window: 2022–2038. 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, 30/04/2006 · Drink 2009-2034
This tremendous terroir has been brought back to life over the last 15 years by Nicolas Thienpont and Stephane Derenoncourt. Its 37-acre vineyard, planted in deep clay and limestone soils, is composed of 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Pavie-Macquin is not far from Gerard Perse's little treasure, Pavie-Decesse. The 2003 Pavie-Macquin turned out brilliantly, no doubt bec…
Robert Parker (RP) — 94–96/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 30/04/2005 · Drink 2013-2030
Minuscule yields of 22 hectoliters per hectare resulted in a prodigious blend of 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. This vineyard's clay and limestone soils were a perfect antidote for the atypical climatic conditions of June, July, and August, 2003. Consultant Stephane Derenoncourt thinks the 2003 is the finest Pavie-Macquin produced to date, but it has some serious compe…
Robert Parker (RP) — 94–97/100 · Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com, 30/04/2004 · Drink 2007-2020
This 35-acre vineyard planted with 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon sits on top of a limestone plateau with some clay ... the perfect soil type for 2003. There are 3,300 cases of the 2003, a vintage that many Bordeaux cognoscenti consider to be the greatest Pavie-Macquin every made. The consultant is Stephane Derenoncourt, and the 2003's natural alcohol is 14%. A magnific…