2025 Pavie Macquin

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Saint-Émilion; 78% Merlot; 20% Cabernet Franc; 2% Cabernet Sauvignon; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; 14% alcohol; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and again at Belgrave). Now 30 years on from the first vintage made by Nicolas Thienpont, this is bold, big, rich and punchy, just as it always is, always will be and always should be. I notice particuarly the slightly ferrous character of its minerality but also the myrrh and cedar that bring so much to this, enveloping the dark stone fruits. What I also note is that Pavie Macquin here seems to have upped its (already extremely impressive) game in 2025. I've not always been the greatest fan of the more extracted style it seems to have sought in recent vintages which can come at the expense of clarity and delineation in the mid-palate. Not here. I really love this. It's dark, glossy, substantial as ever, but more cystalline and pure, more fluid and sinuous and I'm won over by that subtle stylistic evolution. The oak is already seemlessly integrated. Very fine whilst remaining very Pavie Macquin.
94-96/100 Colin Hay

If Château Pavie Macquin 2024 called to mind a refined scholar, then the 2025 vintage evokes Huo Qubing, riding north to victory with unstoppable force. Even before the first sip, its sheer presence gathers quietly, like a bow drawn to full tension. On the palate, the rhythm surges forward as if war drums had begun to sound, the attack unfolding in an instant. Black bayberry, black goji berry, and black mulberry interweave into a dark, powerful current, striking against a palate already built high and firm by limestone structure. The imagery conveyed by this wine is strikingly powerful, almost cinematic; set against the rising notes of Bangmeng Mountain, it would stir the blood and quicken the pulse…
97-98/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Pavie Macquin is a touch shy to start off, offering glimpses of cedar chest and pencil shavings notes before unfurling to reveal a core of black cherries and black raspberries, plus nuances of peonies and forest floor. The medium-bodied palate delivers a crisp line of tension with soft, velvety tannins and bright red and black fruit layers, finishing long and perfumed. The blend is 78% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon. The alcohol is 14.1%.
94-96/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Inky plum colour, a wine that I always love tasting, flinty gunsmoke reduction, full of charm and personality. Intense, concentrated, pumice stone and steel, a ton of lift and we are slap bang in full limestone character, with a creamy undertow. 30 hl/ha. 40% new oak, Nicolas Thienpont showcasing his skill.
96/100 Jane Anson