Château Pavie Macquin St Emilion Grand Cru Premier Grand Cru Classé B 2010

Love the nuances straight off the bat with this wine, it’s a nose that you want to take your time with, slowing everything down. Blackberry and cassis fruits, tannnins brooding but velvety, holds its core strength with confidence. This is 12 years old but just revving up out of the starting block. Delicious, reserved but luscious black chocolate and liqourice bud, nothing too sweet, this is balanced and careful in its slate-filled pummice stone minerality. Has a deft lightness of touch that conceals its power. 80% new oak. Part of the warm vintages series within this vertical.