2010 Château Pavie-Macquin
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Starting to show just a hint of maturity and evolution, the 2010 Château Pavie Macquin is still ruby/plum-hued with a complex nose of ripe red and black cherries, chalky minerality, damp earth, and white truffles. These carry to a wonderfully pure, medium to full-bodied Pavie Macquin offering tons of minerality, a layered, elegant mouthfeel, good acidity, and one hell of a great finish. Drink this complex, satisfying, layered wine over the coming two decades. Drink 2025-2045.
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Jeannie Cho Lee MW
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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Love the nuances straight off the bat with this wine, it's a nose that you want to take your time with, slowing everything down. Blackberry and cassis fruits, tannnins brooding but velvety, holds its core strength with confidence. This is 12 years old but just revving up out of the starting block. Delicious, reserved but luscious black chocolate and liqourice bud, nothing too sweet, this is balanced and careful in its slate-filled pummice stone minerality. Has a deft lightness of touch that conceals its power. 80% new oak. Part of the warm vintages series within this vertical.
A towering, statuesque wine, the 2010 Pavie-Macquin is distinguished by its vertical explosiveness and soaring intensity. Red cherry jam, plums and dried flowers are some of the many aromas and flavors that open up as the 2010 gains breadth over time. Naturally, the 2010 is still a very young wine, but it is incredibly impressive just the same, not to mention one of the highlights of the morning.
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.