Next time you drink a great glass of Saint-Émilion, you have Château Pavie Macquin to thank. In the late nineteenth century, Albert Macquin, who introduced the vine growers of Bordeaux to grafting American rootstocks, became the property's owner and his descendants continue to run the estate more than 140 years later. A professor of the University of Bordeaux declared Macquin was "the grand master of the Saint-Émilion transformation" from ungrafted to grafted vines that could survive the onslaught of the Phylloxera aphid in the future. Its current manager Nicolas Thienpont and consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt have worked tirelessly since the 1990s to elevate this property's vineyards to new heights.
