Grands crus atlas
Area under vine at the estate, from its technical sheet — it does not change from one vintage to the next. Each vintage’s blend, by contrast, departs from it: that figures on its own page.
Château Pavie Macquin is named after the grandfather of the current owners: Albert Macquin (1852-1911), who Saint-Emilion has to thank for the use of grafted plants designed to save the vineyards devastated by phylloxera. In 1994, Nicolas Thienpont was appointed Manager and Winemaker. Recently, his son Cyrille has begun to play an active role.
The 2025 vintage invites us on a journey: here, all is order and beauty, luxury, calm and delight.
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.
Alcohol, yield and vine age are those of the 2025 vintage; they vary from year to year. Only the area above stays stable from one vintage to the next.
| Vintage | Best score | Vintage character | Technical sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | A dry summer and cool nights gave balanced merlots, pure and without excess ripeness. | fiche · PDF |
| 2024 | — | A difficult flowering and a wet summer reduced the harvest: light, aromatic wines, to be drunk early. | fiche · PDF |
| 2023 | — | Mildew cost a good share of the harvest; what was brought in is early, fresh and promising. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2022 | — | The extreme drought was absorbed by the clays: a sun-driven concentration, but without the expected harshness. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2021 | — | Frost followed by a cool summer brought back classic wines, lighter and more taut, to be drunk in their youth. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2020 | — | An early, dry year gave splendid wines, which many rank above 2018. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2019 | — | A hot end of summer on rehydrated soils gave a rare balance between freshness and substance. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2018 | — | After the mildew, the heat concentrated a small harvest: rich, ripe and very dense wines. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2017 | — | Frost struck the slope-foot vines: the plateaus saved the day, and the vintage must be judged plot by plot. | fiche · PDF |
| 2015 | — | A hot summer refreshed by August rains gave the great Right Bank vintage: sublime, built on fruit and depth. | fiche · PDF |
| 2013 | — | Coulure decimated the merlots and the rain did the rest: a light vintage, where the gap between terroirs is wider than usual. | PDF français · PDF anglais |
| 2012 | — | Merlots brought in just before the rain made for a vintage markedly more successful than on the Left Bank. | fiche · PDF |
| 2011 | — | A warm spring followed by a wet summer gave classic wines, best drunk relatively young. | fiche · PDF |
| 2010 | — | The dry summer and cool nights gave dense, tannic wines of extraordinary ageing potential — the exact opposite of 2009. | fiche · PDF |
“Best score”: the highest score recorded for this wine, with its source. “Character”: the overall reading of the year across the appellation, which an estate may depart from.
The estate’s grand vin and other cuvées, vintage by vintage: VinCod sheet and printable PDF.
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