Why this vintage
- The 2020 vintage in Saint-ÉmilionAn early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.
- Limited production48 000 bottles of this vintage.
The 2020 vintage in Saint-Émilion
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Saint-Émilion. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
The vintage
2020 brought out the best in the plateau terroirs. The power of the clay, the mineral tension of the limestone, and aromatic freshness all reached a peak in the contrasted weather conditions of the vintage.
Blend of the 2020 vintage
- 80 % Merlot
- 20 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2020 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 78 % merlot, 20 % cabernet franc, 2 % cabernet sauvignon — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 2020 sheet
- 14.5 % vol.Alcohol
- 31 hl/haYield
- 35 yrsVine age
- 48,000 bottlesProduction
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Winemaking
Manual harvests. Gravity vatting of whole berries and separate vinification in concrete tanks. Reductive ageing on fine lees: first racking after 6 to 10 months of ageing, the second one a year later, before bottling. Fining and filtering only if necessary.
Ageing
16-20 months in barrels, 50% new
Terroir
The terroir is a plateau, next to the Mondot hill and along the edge of the Fongaban fault. The vineyard has a dominant elevation, ranging from 100 metres at the edge of the hill to seventy-five metres at the rim of the plateau. The soils, all clay-limestone, express different notions of terroir in the vineyard depending on their geographical position, the nature of the clays (stronger or less strong), but also and above all on the proximity of the asteriated limestone bedrock, found between 20 cm and 1.5 m deep. The shallow depth of the soils over a large part of Pavie Macquin allows it to express mineral character.
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Texts and documents 2020
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