Chateau Pavie Macquin 2015

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CLIMATOLOGY After a cold midwinter, a cool and rainy spring, the arrival of summer was marked by very hot conditions until late July. This thankfully early episode was nothing but beneficial! The dry period intensified, causing water stress which had a particular qualitative impact on our limestone-clay terroirs.At this stage, the progress of the climate – similar to 2005 and 2010 with small and potentially concentrated grapes – led us to believe that a great vintage could be on its way.Dampness returned to the soil during August a rare phenomenon!. The return of dry conditions in the weeks before the harvest was heartily welcomed, as they helped to refine the tannins and ripen particularly rich grapes. The magic of 5 vintages seems to have been at work!HISTORY Chateau Pavie Macquin owes its name to the grand-father of the current owners Albert Macquin 1852-1911, who used plant grafting as a way to save the Saint-Emilion vineyard, destroyed by phylloxera. The vineyard of Pavie Macquin, a family property of fifteen hectares, is located on the top of the Saint-Emilion plateau.VITICULTURE Surface area 15 ha 12,9 ha in production. Planting density 6600 feets / ha. Average age of the vineyard 35 years-old. Terroir clay-chalk plateau with asteriated limestone subsoil. Vineyard practices Combination of traditional ways labours and methods of natural sodding. Renewal of the vineyard pulling-out, replanting, massal selection with higher density. Biological control and herbal treatment of the vineyard. Numerous manual interventions disbudding, leaf removal, thinning.VINIFICATION, AGEING Duration of vatting 25-28 days. Ageing time 16 to 20 months in barrels. Barrels 60 % neuves, 40 % d1 vin.Distinctives features Manual harvests. Gravity vatting of whole berries and seperate vinification in concrete tanks. Reductant ageing on fine lees first racking after 6 to 10 months of ageing before summer, the second one a year later, before the bottling. Fining and filtering only if necessary. – Chateau Pavie Macquin