CHATEAU PAVIE MACQUIN 2016, ST-EMILION

Description

Grape: 82% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc and 2% Cabernet Sauvignon

This terroir of strong clay on limestone bedrock produces a powerful, fleshy wine with minerality, freshness and generosity.

The Pavie Macquin vineyard is characterized by its location on a plateau, next to Mondot hill and on the edge of the Fongaban fault. Thanks to its commanding position, its height ranges from 100 meters above sea level next to the hill, to 75 meters on the edge of the plateau. In one unique holding, it borders Troplong Mondot to the east and Château Pavie to the south, and overlooks Trottevieille to the north.
We are therefore in excellent company in a particularly high-quality region, surrounded by three Premiers Grands Crus Classés.

Winemaking

Harvest reception by gravity entirely manual: 4 successive sorting tables, de-stemming but no crushing. Gravity vatting of whole berries and separate vinification
in concrete tanks. Gentle extraction by punching of the cap, at the core of the fermentation. Malolactic fermentation in barrels. Reductant ageing on fine lees: First
racking after 6 to 10 months of ageing (before summer), second one a year later, before the bottling. Fining and filtering only if necessary.