2012 Pavie Macquin
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Tasting notes
This is clearly made in the same mould as Larcis Ducasse but has an extra dimension to it. Plush dark fruit on the nose and good concentration on the palate. Texture and grip. FINE+RARE
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Wine Spectator
Robert Parker
More reviews and scores
The 2012 Pavie Macquin has a smudged and bretty nose that obfuscates the terroir expression. It simply lacks freshness. The palate is fleshy on the entry with modest depth, missing some grip with a dirty, slightly baked finish. This is difficult to fathom out, and I put a question mark against my score. Tasted blind at the Southwold Ten-Year On tasting.
Plump but soft raspberry, blackberry and red cherry fruit, with a mouthwatering salinity to the tannins that reflects its limestone terroir. Tasted as part of a vertical at the estate recently, and again for this report, it shows a relatively fruit-forward ability to please, with butterscotch and saffron streaks on the finish. 80% new oak.
Tasted blind. Colour is still youthful. So is the nose. It seems almost fossilised! Bitter finish. SO exaggerated and over-extracted! (JR)
About the producer
On the hill of Pavie, this property’s 15 hectares of vines neighbour those of Troplong Mondot and Pavie. Under Stéphane Derenoncourt and Nicolas Thienpont, the property was promoted to Premier Grand Cru Classé B status in 2006.