2025, Château Pavie Macquin, SAINT-ÉMILION, Grand Cru

Owners 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 stone and steel, a ton of lift and we are slap bang in full limestone character, with a creamy undertow. 40% new oak, Nicolas Thienpont showcasing his skill. 96 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

The 2025 Pavie Macquin is a powerful, structured wine.  Dark-fleshed fruit, chocolate, menthol, liquorice, sage and lavender add to an impression of brooding density and pure power. Floral top notes lift the close. I can't wait to see how this ages. Tasted two times. 2033-2065. 95-97 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.

Quite dark liquorice, black chocolate and toasted notes on the nose, round and softly plump with fleshy tannins and a really bright, almost brisk core of crunchy. cranberry-edged acidity. Straightforward with a structured frame of firm tannins and toasted oak. It’s not yet harmonised and the acidity is quite accentuated which is almost always the case but I do like the generous and friendly tannins which make it that little bit more soft and charming. 96 Georgina Hindle, Decanter.