Château Margaux

Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux, 2016

Name: Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux
Brand: Château Margaux
Price: 1460.74 GBP

95/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

Vinous

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2016
6x75cl
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£1,460.74

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

As ever, Chateau Margaux’s white is a 100% Sauvignon Blanc wine raised entirely in oak, though today only a quarter of the demi-muid barrels they use are new. Fewer than 850 cases are produced of this prodigious wine that combines elements of cool tropicality and rich power with remarkable tension and poise. Thibault explained that the wine’s low pH of 3.2 was down to the cool nights they experienced leading up to harvest, and it is clearly a defining factor in the wine. It is so expressive and concentrated as notes of pineapple, lime, white flowers, grapefruit and orange peel bust across the palate in an intense display of powerful fruit notes that stain the mouth, leading to a fresh sleek finish that has notes of salt, fine complex minerality and sea shell. Bravo! Harvest was carried out between the 8th and 13th of September.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Critic Reviews

95/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2016 Pavillon Blanc from Chateau Margaux prances with showy scents of fresh pineapples, white peaches, and honeycomb, plus a touch of elderflower. The light to medium-bodied palate has amazing energy for the opulence of the fruit expression, featuring tropical fruit layers and a lively backbone, finishing long and electric.

drinking window 2022 - 2038

date of review 12/2022

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2016 Pavillon Blanc de Château Margaux, which was bottled in May, has a beguiling bouquet of Golden Delicious apple, Williams pear and light crushed stone aromas that gently unfold in the glass. The palate is very well balanced with a taut line of acidity (in fact, the pH is 3.10 in this vintage) – citrus-fresh with impressive tension. A live-wire Pavillon Blanc with great sustain on the rich finish and a tang of ginger on the aftertaste. Superb.

drinking window 2021 - 2035

date of review 01/2019

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

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13%

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.