Château Pavie-Macquin 2025
St-Emilion 1er Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£249.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 14.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2032 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2055 |
| Grapes: 78% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon | |
Critic scores
95-97 AG, 97-98 JS, 94-96 JD, 94-96 LPB, 96 JA, 95 DC, 96-98 JL, 94-96 DB, 95-97 YB
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Pavie Macquin is a powerful, structured wine. In most vintages, Pavie Macquin is sensual and silky, but the 2025 is quite tannic in this tasting. Dark-fleshed fruit, chocolate, menthol, licorice, sage and lavender add to an impression of brooding density and pure power. Floral top notes lift the close. I can't wait to see how this ages. Tasted two times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Quite dark liquorice, black chocolate and toasted notes on the nose, round and softly plump with fleshy tannins and a really bright, almost brisk core of crunchy. cranberry-edged acidity. Straightforward with a structured frame of firm tannins and toasted oak. It’s not yet harmonised and the acidity is quite accentuated which is almost always the case but I do like the generous and friendly tannins which make it that little bit more soft and charming."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(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."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"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."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Quite dark liquorice, black chocolate and toasted notes on the nose, round and softly plump with fleshy tannins and a really bright, almost brisk core of crunchy. cranberry-edged acidity. Straightforward with a structured frame of firm tannins and toasted oak. It’s not yet harmonised and the acidity is quite accentuated which is almost always the case but I do like the generous and friendly tannins which make it that little bit more soft and charming."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(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."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com