Pavie Macquin Vintage:2006 delivering fantastic intensity with a

delivering fantastic intensity with a racy backbone and gorgeous satiny texture

The bouquet is broad and wide-sweeping with a healthy succession of red berry

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

There is excellent richness to the concentrated and beautifully textured broad-shouldered flavors that possess focused power and a subtle minerality that really comes up on the youthfully austere and strikingly long finish

and the winter following the bottling (it was bottled in May 2017 at the same time as the Laurel) is when they tend to show closed

Pavie Macquin Vintage:2006 delivering fantastic intensity with aThe 2012 Pavie Macquin shows how appealing the best wines from this vintage are. Bright, floral and racy, the 2012 is drinking beautifully today. Readers who prefer more aromatic complexity might prefer to cellar the 2012 for another few years, but there is something about the wine's raciness and immediacy that makes it a pure pleasure to taste today. Antonio Galloni