Pavillon blanc - Bordeaux 2023

Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux

Sold in the 19th century under the name « Château Margaux vin de sauvignon », it has existed under the brand name « Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux » since 1920 and its label has not changed since that date.

The eleven-hectare vineyard is located on a very old parcel and planted only with Sauvignon Blanc. Today it benefits from the new wine cellar’s ultra-modern installations designed by Norman Foster.

The finesse, complexity, richness and the length in the mouth of Pavillon Blanc are incomparable for a wine produced only from Sauvignon. The recent vintages have opened up new horizons in quality, ageing capacity and style which has become more mineral and much more complex.

The 2023 vintage

After a relatively mild and dry winter, the vineyard awoke in early April. Spared from frost, the spring featured frequent but light rain, except for a particularly rainy fortnight in June. These conditions made maintaining good vineyard health somewhat challenging. However, thanks to the expertise of our teams, we ensured healthy foliage, guaranteeing optimal grape ripening and a beautiful harvest. Unlike 2022, this year saw only one heatwave in August, just when the berries are most sensitive to heat. Meticulous sorting during the harvest allowed us to select the best fruits.

Pavillon de Margaux Blanc 2023 offers a bouquet of complex falvours and aromas and a well-rounded palate. Plot selections were even more rigourous in the vineyard. Grapes from nearly 10 hectares are vinified in about twenty distinct lots, each contributing to the wine's unique character. The trials undertaken over the years to create the second white wine, The Pavillon Blanc Second Vin and its launch with the 2022 vintage, have enabled Pavillon Blanc 2023 to reach new levels of precision and excellence.

Jeb DUNNUCK

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byJeb Dunnuckthe5/13/2024

The 2023 Château Margaux Pavillon Blanc is knockout stuff and consistently checks in with the crème de la crème of dry whites from Bordeaux. All Sauvignon Blanc, it has a riveting nose of honeyed limes, grapefruit, and mint. This carries to a medium-bodied white with remarkable purity, a racy, almost bracing spine of acidity, incredible precision, and a great finish. It's going to be incredibly long-lived, and I suspect 2-4 years of bottle age will help its acidity round into form.

The Wine Independent

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byLisa Perrotti-Brownthe5/7/2024

The 2023 Pavillon Blanc du Chateau Margaux comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant notes of fresh grapefruit, pineapple, and white peaches leading to hints of honeysuckle, orange blossom, and coriander seed with a waft of yuzu. The medium-bodied palate has vivacious citrus and tropical fruit flavors with a racy backbone and long chalky finish. This is delicious! The yield was 37 hl/ha and the pH 3.15.

The Wine Cellar Insider

95-95

byJeff Levethe5/6/2024

White flowers, pomelo, white peach, green apples, and tangerine create the perfume. The palate continues with that theme. It takes a second before the fruits sneak up on you and starts to pop in the finish, leaving with you layers of sweet, vibrant, crisp, juicy, citrus, and green apples, with a complicating touch of chalk on the the backend. The wine is produced from 100% Sauvignon Blanc.13. ABV. 3.15 pH. Harvesting took place only in the mornings, from August 23 - August 30. Drink from 2025-2038. 95 Pts.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

byJane Ansonthe5/6/2024

White peach flesh on the opening gives an opulent start that quickly narrows inwards to flint and steel. An exceptional white wine, with sculpted charm, showcasing citrus, lime zest, green apple, anis and sage. Harvest August 23 to 30, yields 37hl/h compared to 15h/h in 2022.

Vinous

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byAntonio Gallonithe4/30/2024

The 2023 Pavillon Blanc is quite powerful in this vintage, marked by a combination of creamy, textured fruit, bright acids and an almost phenolic feel that adds pseudo-tannic structure. I imagine the 2023 will need a few years in bottle. Pavillon Blanc is usually more immediate and racier, but the 2023 looks like more of a long-distance runner. Lemon confit, almond and white flowers unfurl in the glass.

Vinous

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byNeal Martinthe4/29/2024

The 2023 Pavillon Blanc was picked from August 23 to 30 during the heat wave, so the fruit was picked only in the morning. The yield clocked in at 37hL/ha. It has a crisp nose with green apples, nettle and grass clippings, perhaps not as complex as I expected. The palate is well balanced with touches of melon and orange rind on the entry. Modest in depth and quite fresh with a touch of lemongrass, it is a fine and comparatively opulent Pavillon Blanc, even if I would not place it on the mantelpiece with the great vintages in recent years.

Wine Advocate

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byYohan Castaingthe4/26/2024

The 2023 Pavillon Blanc from Château Margaux, harvested during the morning hours of the August 23-30 heatwave, possesses a deep, complex bouquet of spring flowers, lemon oil, ripe orchard fruits, lemongrass and sweet gooseberries, followed by a medium to full-bodied, round and concentrated palate that's animated by lively acids, concluding with a long, taut, delicately phenolic finish. This bottling amounts to only 45% of the entire crop, the rest being relegated to a second wine.

Jamessuckling.com

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byJames Sucklingthe4/25/2024

This is quite a big Pavillon Blanc with sliced pineapple, ripe apple, lemon and stone. It's full-bodied, layered and phenolic with a ripe sense to it, but then it’s citrusy and salty. Like fresh oysters. Reminds me of vintages from the 1980s, but with more freshness and clarity. 100% sauvignon blanc.

Decanter.com

byGeorgina Hindlethe4/10/2024

Peach, apricot, nectarine, white chocolate, smells a little lemongrass and yoghurt on the nose, some richness on the nose. Weighty with a great texture on the palate. Seeing acidity gives the lift straight away - lemon juice, fully citrus, but so clean and so mineral too with oyster shell and salt on the undercurrent. It’s still quite lean, but graceful and very elegant and very moreish. I love the style, sharp and tangy. Fresh, orange, lemon and peach, lovely bitter elements with juiciness and some richness in terms of texture. Bright and alive. It’s very good. I like the tang on the super long finish. Well constructed. The teams picked between August 23 and 30 just in the mornings and pressed gently to preserve acidity. 3.15pH - a little higher than in 2021. 37hl/ha yield. 45% grand vin production, 50% second wine.

Information:	Details:
Couleur	Blanc
Cépages	Sauvignon Blanc 100 %
Appellation	Bordeaux
Millesime	2023
Contenance	Bouteille (75 cl)

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Couleur

Blanc

Cépages

Sauvignon Blanc 100 %

Appellation

Bordeaux

Millesime

2023

Contenance

Bouteille (75 cl)

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