Pavie Macquin丨Premiers Grand Cru Classe B I Wine Couple

Chateau Pavie Macquin

Chateau Pavie Macquin, took its name from Albert Macquin. The name of Macquin is famous today for more than being attached to a Saint Emilion chateau. Albert Macquin was a true pioneer. He deserves much of the credit for solving the phylloxera epidemic.

It was his idea to graft vines needed onto rootstocks. This helped save not only St. Emilion, but much of Bordeaux and the vineyards of Europe from the devastation being caused by the nonstop phylloxera attack.

The current owners of Pavie Macquin are Benoit Corre and Bruno Corre and Marie-Jacques Charpentier. They own Pavie Macquin, along with their children.

Prior to 1998, the estate was not producing wines at the level of its terroir. To know this, all you have to do is taste the wines of Pavie Macquin from before 1998 and compare them with the wines they started making in 1998, up until today to understand how far they have come at Pavie Macquin.

I mentioned 1998 because that is the date of the rebirth of Pavie Macquin for their wine. But the start of everything coming together began several years earlier, in 1990 to be exact. That was the year the young, Stephane Derenoncourt joined the team at Pavie Macquin.

A few years later, in 1994, Nicolas Thienpont was the next member to join the team at Pavie Macquin. It took a few years after that, but starting with the 1998 vintage, things began rapidly turning around for the wines of this St. Emilion chateau. As of today, 2005 Pavie Macquin remains the finest vintage they have produced yet.

This 15-hectare vineyard of Pavie Macquin is planted to 80% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyards of Chateau Pavie Macquin are located next to the hill of Mondot at an altitude of between 77 meters at its high point. Located in a valley, portions of the terroir can be cooler.

If you’re standing in the Right Bank vineyards of Pavie Macquin, you get a great view of their well-known neighbors. Troplong Mondot is to the west, Pavie is south, Trotte Vieille is due north and Pavie Decesse is right in front.

Pavie Macquin has a complex terroir that features 9 different types of soil, most of it is clay and limestone soil. You can simplify matters by looking at their northern parcels as being in a slightly cooler, limestone area, and in the south, you find a warmer terroir. It is the blending of the terroirs and grape varieties that makes all the difference here.

The vineyards of Chateau Pavie Macquin are planted at a vine density of 6,600 vines per hectare. However, newer plantings are being done at a very high density for the Right Bank at 8,888 vines per hectare. At Pavie Macquin they have old vines, many are on average, close to 40 years of age. Their oldest vines date back more than 60 years.

At Chateau Pavie Macquin, the vineyard is managed using 100% organic techniques. But they choose not to be certified organic, allowing them to make a wider variety of choices. They are also biodiverse, meaning they are HVE certified. The policy of replanting at Chateau Pavie Macquin is that individual vines are replaced on a vine-by-vine basis.

This is done using the selection massal technique where the budwood is drawn from existing vines from within the Pavie Macquin vineyard. In time for the 2012 harvest, Chateau Pavie Macquin finished a complete renovation of the estate including all their winemaking facilities, the tasting room, and the vat house.

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Chateau Pavie Macquin Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classe B

This terroir of strong clay on limestone bedrock produces a powerful, fleshy wine with minerality, freshness and generosity.

The Pavie Macquin grape types, predominately Merlot, have found their perfect home in strong clay soils. The molasses soils combined with asteriated limestone give the wines power and tension, as well as a deep meatiness.

The ancient colluvial soils containing silt add a touch of lightness whilst retaining the mineral tension from the limestone.

The Cabernet Franc is in its rightful place in limestone soils, with bare rock, which warm up quicker, allowing the grape variety to develop all its excellence and give the blend its ‘backbone’ and complexity.

The wine is topped off with 2% old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon.

Les Chenes de Macquin Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classe

Les Chênes (‘the oaks’) come from the trees planted as ornaments and emblems of the cru along the edge of the plateau. Selection is a major part of the quest for excellence: at Pavie Macquin, vineyards are cultivated and harvested in small increments when each vine is perfectly ripe, followed by aging of several plots.

This mosaic of wines, vinified and aged separately, is used to create two final wines: the first is Château Pavie Macquin, and the second Les Chênes de Macquin. In each vintage, the generosity and the typicity of the site are expressed.