Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux - Margaux 2021 (750ml)
Price: $150.00
| Producer | Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Margaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 8427 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 94-95 Points
A nicely rounded young red with fine tannins that are polished and poised. Medium body with a solid center-palate and a creamy finish. Shows wonderful ripeness and beauty. 73% cabernet sauvignon 18% merlot 5% petit verdot and 4% cabernet franc.
jdJeb Dunnuck: 92 Points
Mostly likely the second wine of the vintage the 2021 Château Margaux Pavillon Rouge boasts a deep ruby/purple hue as well as beautiful aromatics of red and blue fruits smoke tobacco violets and graphite. It's medium-bodied has remarkable purity integrated acidity and one heck of a beautiful finish. You can taste more than a little Grand Vin in this yet it clearly has more up-front charm and appeal. A blend of 73% Cabernet Sauvignon 18% Merlot 5% Petit Verdot and the rest Cabernet Franc it benefits from air and should be at its best from 2029-2041.
Jane Anson: 92 Points
Beautifully sappy balanced feel plums damson red cherry sage gunsmoke peony balanced alcohols. This is a 2nd wine with plenty of character finesse and nuance stretches out through the palate a touch more Cabernet Franc this year in the blend giving a savoury floral uplift. 30% of overall
Wine Advocate: 91 Points
The 2021 Pavillon Rouge offers up aromas of raspberries sweet cherries and white flowers followed by a medium to full-bodied lively palate that's quite taut and youthfully structured out of the gates with good depth at the core and powdery tannins. It will reward a bit of bottle age. Château Margaux has turned out a brilliant performance. A challenging growing season which saw Margaux touched by spring frost and end-of-season rot delivered a heterogenous crop but the estate can afford both to take risks (harvesting reds between September 24 and October 13) and select rigorously. Philippe Bascaules opted to saignée his tanks to concentrate the musts especially the Merlots and then vinified gently. "After a saignée you really have to ease off on extraction if you don't want to overdo it" he explained. But the concentration of the ensuing wines took him aback exhibiting analytically similar levels of tannins to the superb 2019s. Margaux always producers fresh vibrant wines so pHs are similar to was was attained in other recent vintages; what's different however are alcohol levels around 1% lower than 2018 2019 or 2020. As the accompanying tasting notes attest the grand vin itself and Pavillon Blanc both number among the wines of the vintage in red and in white. Published: Feb 08 2024
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