Beschrijving
2009 PAVILLON ROUGE
2 Ième vin de Château Margaux
De Pavillon zit boordevol aroma’s van boysenbes en bramen en biedt smaken van zwarte drop in de mond en eindigt met zachte, zoete tannines. Heel zijdeachtig. De blend was dit jaar 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Merlot en 4% Petit Verdot. 93 punten Lisa Perrotti-Brown van Wine Advocate: “De Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux uit 2009 heeft een medium tot diepe granaatkleur en een expressieve, prachtig bloemige neus van gedroogde rozen en gekonfijte viooltjes over een kern van kirsch, cake uit het Zwarte Woud en geurige aarde met accenten van zwarte thee en sigarenkistje. Medium-bodied, de smaak is zacht, zacht, elegant en open gebreid met een moeiteloos karakter en een geparfumeerde afdronk.
PARKER (93)
The estate’s second wine, the sexy 2009 Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux, offers lots of black raspberry, cedar and foresty/underbrush notes in its round, generous, full-bodied, seductive embrace of black fruits interwoven with floral notes results. This seamless second wine is one of the finest Chateau Margaux has made to date. Enjoy it over the next two decades.
WINESPECTATOR / JAMES SUCKLING (95)
Very sleek, with a lovely winey edge to the plum, cassis and blackberry fruit, laced with roasted apple wood, lilac and singed iron notes. Tangy and lengthy, with ample depth, but also nearly approachable now.
OVERIGE (18)
Rene Gabriel rates this wine 18/20 points.
PAVILLON ROUGE DU CHÂTEAU MARGAUX
The production of a second wine probably goes back to the beginning of the XVII century because it is inseparable from the search for excellence which started at that time.
Sold under the name of “Château Margaux 2nd wine”, it took its permanent name of Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux in 1908. After an eclipse between the thirties and the mid-seventies, its production restarted on the arrival of André Mentzelopoulos in 1977 and at first greatly increased in order to improve the quality of the first wine. From the mid – 1990s, the creation of a third wine in its turn, allowed for a more and more rigorous selection for Pavillon Rouge. For a few years now, a third of the harvest has gone into the first wine, barely 30% into the Pavillon Rouge, and the remainder is divided between the third and fourth wines.
The quality of Pavillon Rouge has become very close to that of the first wine because all the plots involved contributed to the blending of Château Margaux not so long ago. Of course there isn’t the same complexity, the same depth, the same “magic” but the flavours are close and the balance in the mouth leads to the same subtle senses of power and softness. In general it is ready to drink a little earlier whilst retaining an excellent potential to age largely beyond 30 or 40 years.