Château Pavie Macquin 2024

The 2024 vintage in Saint-Émilion

Vintage benchmark: 87/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)

Vintage character: A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early.

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.

Tasting

""From the first nose, an impression of distinction, like someone entering a room with innate ease. Refined, intoxicating, of millimetric precision, it unfolds layers of concentrated flavours: blackberry, damson plum, delicate purple flowers (iris) and black liquorice. On the palate, the balance is so perfect that the wine seems suspended in weightlessness. The fruit, al dente, shines with crystalline freshness. The long finish unfolds slowly, peacefully."" - Le Figaro

The vintage

The 2024 vintage is oceanic in style, built on a lovely aromatic complexity and the preservation of a beautiful energy.

Blend of the 2024 vintage

Figures from the 2024 sheet

• 13 % vol.Alcohol
• 42 hl/haYield
• 35 yrsVine age
• 50,000 bottlesProduction

Winemaking

Manual harvests. Gravity vatting of whole berries and separate vinification in wooden and 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.