1999 Ch Pavie Macquin Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 1x600cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Pavie Macquin
- Region St Emilion
- Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
- Case size 1x600cl
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1999 - Ch Pavie Macquin Grand Cru Classé St Emilion - 1x600cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Pavie Macquin
- Region St Emilion
- Grape Merlot / Cabernet Franc / Cabernet Sauvignon
- Case size 1x600cl
- Available Now
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Robert Parker, April 2002, Score: 90
The dense plum/purple-colored 1999 offers up aromas of truffles, underbrush, espresso, black cherries, and roasted meats. The wine is powerful and muscular with high extract and mouth-searing tannin, it is an atypically backward effort for the vintage. Patient connoisseurs who admire wines with this level of intensity will be handsomely repaid for their discipline. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020.
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Robert Parker, April 2002, Score: 90
The dense plum/purple-colored 1999 offers up aromas of truffles, underbrush, espresso, black cherries, and roasted meats. The wine is powerful and muscular with high extract and mouth-searing tannin, it is an atypically backward effort for the vintage. Patient connoisseurs who admire wines with this level of intensity will be handsomely repaid for their discipline. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020.
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Robert Parker, April 2001, Score: 92-94
The 1999, which has continued to flesh out during its upbringing, is one of the most concentrated and potentially long-lived wines of the vintage. An opaque ruby/purple color is followed by jammy, kirsch liqueur, blackberry, and smoky graphite aromas. The essence of this vineyard's terroir is apparent in this huge yet supple-textured, super-concentrated as well as layered effort. It is a prodigious offering. Anticipated maturity: 2004-2025.
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Robert Parker, April 2000, Score: 91-94
An amazing blockbuster for the third year in a row, Pavie-Macquin's saturated purple/black-colored 1999 is a serious vin de garde that will require 8-10 years of cellaring. In style and backwardness, only Pomerol's famed Lafleur comes close to the personality of this wine. Pure, extremely concentrated, with behemoth credentials, this impressive, dense, chewy, old style, pure, impeccably made St.-Emilion should only be purchased by those with patience. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2030.
Region
St Emilion
South of Pomerol lies the medieval, perched village of St Emilion. Surrounding St Emilion are vines that produce round, rich and often hedonistic wines. Despite a myriad of soil types, two main ones dominate - the gravelly, limestone slopes that delve down to the valley from the plateau and the valley itself which is comprised of limestone, gravel, clay and sand. Despite St Emilion's popularity today, it was not until the 1980s to early 1990s that attention was brought to this region. Robert Parker, the famous wine critic, began reviewing their Merlot-dominated wines and giving them hefty scores. The rest is history as they say. Similar to the Médoc, there is a classification system in place which dates from 1955 and outlines several levels of quality. These include its regional appellation of St Emilion, St Emilion Grand Cru, St Emilion Grand Cru Classé and St Emilion Premier Grand Cru Classé, which is further divided into "A" (Ausone and Cheval Blanc) and "B" (including Angélus, Canon, Figeac and a handful of others). To ensure better accuracy, the classification is redone every 10 years enabling certain châteaux to be upgraded or downgraded depending on on the quality of their more recent vintages.
