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Pavie Macquin 2010

RegionBordeaux
Subregion France > Bordeaux > Right Bank > St Emilion
ColourRed
TypeStill
Grape VarietyMerlot/Cabernet Franc

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Tasting Notes

This is always an extremely masculine, dense, burly wine, and the 2010, which tips the scales at 14.5% alcohol (just slightly under that of the 2009), has a final blend of 80% Merlot and the rest virtually all Cabernet Franc, with just 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Loads of crushed rock and chalkiness, along with licorice, black truffle, smoked game and black fruits dominate the aromatics and flavor. Backward, formidably endowed, full-bodied and almost atypically massive and huge, with gargantuan extraction, this is a wine for patient connoisseurs to forget about for close to a decade. Anticipated maturity: 2022-2040+.

95+
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (205), August 2013

The 2010 Pavie Macquin has a rather lovely menthol/star anis scented bouquet, ripe and extrovert but demonstrating more composure than the Troplong-Mondot alongside. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweet core of black plummy fruit, slightly lower acidity than expected but it remains well balanced with a caressing soy and black pepper tinged finish that fans out nicely. Excellent, if more exotic than I would have liked in the context of the growing season. Drink:2023-2040

91
Neal Martin, vinous.com (Squaress &), April 2020

Gorgeous nose with great complexity. Blackberry, licorice and a steely mineral note. Lots of chalk, nutmeg and violets too. Dense and full-bodied on the palate with a beautiful fruit and a sumptuous fruity finish that just goes on and on. Velvety tannins and layered texture with lots of raw licorice. Drink from 2018.

95
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, February 2013

This is always an extremely masculine, dense, burly wine, and the 2010, which tips the scales at 14.5% alcohol (just slightly under that of the 2009), has a final blend of 80% Merlot and the rest virtually all Cabernet Franc, with just 1% Cabernet Sauvignon. Loads of crushed rock and chalkiness, along with licorice, black truffle, smoked game and black fruits dominate the aromatics and flavor. Backward, formidably endowed, full-bodied and almost atypically massive and huge, with gargantuan extraction, this is a wine for patient connoisseurs to forget about for close to a decade. Anticipated maturity: 2022-2040+.

95+
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (March 2020), March 2020

Love the nuances straight off the bat with this wine, it's a nose that you want to take your time with, slowing everything down. Blackberry and cassis fruits, tannnins brooding but velvety, holds its core strength with confidence. This is 12 years old but just revving up out of the starting block. Delicious, reserved but luscious black chocolate and liqourice bud, nothing too sweet, this is balanced and careful in its slate-filled pummice stone minerality. Has a deft lightness of touch that conceals its power. 80% new oak. Part of the warm vintages series within this vertical.

97
Jane Anson, JaneAnson.com, January 2022

Dark crimson. Something a bit unusual about this. Certainly pure on the nose. And pretty ripe. Very sweet start and then very worked and polished. Chewy end. Oak a bit too much of a feature in this wine!

15.5
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, April 2011

Stéphane Derenoncourt produces a wine here that Robert Parker describes as "The Lafleur of Saint Emilion". Nestled between Pavie and Troplong Mondot, there is no doubt that this is one of Saint Emilion's finest vineyards - yet en primeur pricing is surprisingly modest with older vintages hard to find. This is super-concentrated this year - almost rivalling the Perse wines. There is a huge nose of ripe raspberries and a touch of coconut and mango - really rather exotic. It is viscous and sweet on the palate with some over-ripe fruit flavours but the finish is not overly dry. Certainly modern style and strong but not over-done. Deeply impressive density.

93
Farr Vintners, April 2011

The nose has a sweet fruit salad of flavours red fruits, juicy raspberry backed by quite fleshy black. The tannins are ripe and rounded but there is enough freshness to balance. It feels a bit super charged.

87/91
Derek Smedley MW, April 2011
91
Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com, April 2011

Rich, dense and powerful but extremely well balanced. Huge depth of fruit. Striking freshness. Bags of ripe tannin. Great ageing potential. Drink 2020-2040.

18
James Lawther MW, Decanter.com, April 2011
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Although not as potent alcoholically as its 2009 counterpart (14.5% in 2010 versus 15% in 2009), the 2010 is still a very big wine. The final blend was 85% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 1% Cabernet Sauvignon and production was slightly more than 3,400 cases. This black/purple-tinged wine exhibits lots of minerality (from this terroir's clay and limestone soils) as well as the entire spectrum of black fruits. Full-bodied and backward, it's like drinking crushed limestone/chalk when you taste this intense, tannic, powerful wine. It will require 8-10 years of cellaring and should evolve for 35-40+ years.

96/98+
Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (194), May 2011

Tasted at the Union de Grand Cru in London. The Pavie-Macquin has wonderful delineation and poise on the nose: raspberry, wild strawberry, crushed stone and a hint of apricot. It is quite modern in style - but wonderfully controlled and generous, almost to the point of Burgundian purity. The palate is medium-bodied with super-fine tannins. There are hints of sage and quince infusing the red fruit profile, whilst the finish is silky smooth. It is perhaps just a little sweeter than I envisaged out of barrel? Hopefully it will calm down in bottle. Tasted November 2012.

93
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com, February 2013

The Pavie Macquin has a gorgeous, lifted, opulent bouquet with pure dark berries, boysenberry and dark plums with superb delineation. Seductive indeed. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe, juicy tannins, layers of pure vanilla-tinged red fruits with a harmonious silky finish that retains freshness and vibrancy. This is yet another lovely Pavie-Macquin. Tasted April 2011.

93/95
Neal Martin, RobertParker.com, April 2011

Super compacted with incredible intensity of minerals, black fruits, licorice and spices. Full and dense. Wild fruit that goes on for minutes. A little firm as always but will open nicely

95/96
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, March 2011
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