Château Pavie-Macquin

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The Château Pavie-Macquin is a French winery and is located in the Saint-Émilion area . It is a winery from the Saint Émilion appellation with the highest Premier Grand Cru Classé classification (see also the article Bordeaux wine (classification) ).

The Pavie-Macquin vineyards are located on the limestone plateau of Saint-Émilion. Further to the east is the famous Château Troplong Mondot winery and to the south is the Château Pavie-Decesse winery .

The winery owned by the Corre-Macquin family has 15.2 hectares of vineyards ; the average age of the vines is 35 years. The planting density is 6,000 vines per hectare. The current planting is 75% Merlot , 20% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon . The annual output is usually around 35,000 bottles. The second wine is called Les Chênes de Macquin .

The most famous owner was Albert Macquin who owned the property at the end of the 19th century: Macquin was a specialist for the refining and grafting European grafting on American underlay Vines of phylloxera resisted. Nowadays, after the devastating phylloxera disaster since the end of the 19th century u. a. Only grafted vines were used in the entire Bordelais.

Pavie-Macquin's wines have been of impeccable quality since the late 1980s. Before that, the wines were extremely uneven, as the estate has its own very warm, microclimate that you first had to learn to deal with.

The estate is farmed biodynamically , which in France compared to Germany happens far more often than to make this fact public. The director (manager) of the estate is Nicolas Thienpont, who also works at Vieux Château Certan . Stephane Derenoncourt is the real winemaker in the cellar, “Maitre de Chai”. The estate is advised by the well-known oenologist Michel Rolland .

literature

  • Charles Cocks, Edouard Féret, Bruno Boidron: Bordeaux et ses vins . 18th edition. Èdition Féret et Fils, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-35156-013-6 .

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