Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux, 2025 - Magnum
Pavillon Blanc du Château Margaux, 2025 - Magnum
- 150cl
- 14%
- White Still
- Sauvignon Blanc
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Pavillon Blanc is Château Margaux's white wine, made exclusively from Sauvignon Blanc grown on 12 hectares of the estate's finest gravelly soils. We find this one of Bordeaux's most refined expressions of the grape, combining the precision you'd expect from first-growth expertise with the variety's natural vivacity.
What the critics say:
"A complete sauvignon blanc with sliced pear, apple and lemon aromas and flavors with a full body and a polished texture that is caressing and beautiful. It is crunchy and a bit richer than many Pavillon Blancs."
"Clementines, grapefruit, white pear, chamomile and elderflower on the nose. Gorgeous zesty appeal - bright and focused, upfront with a tangy freshly picked green apple core. Succulent and almost sweet with a dollop of lemon sherbet and pineapple but with such clear and crystalline acidity. Intense and concentrated, extremely rich but lifted by the acidity. Definitely has an opulence to this - it’s wide, impactful and long lasting on the finish with peach and apricot notes. No aggressive acidity, more fresh and soft fruit but with real mass. Gorgeous, juicy and just makes you smile. What a wonderful wine. A yield of 16hl/ha. 3.14pH. Harvest 18-22 August."
"This is long and rich, beautifully drawn out, with hints of bitter almonds, preserved lemon, elderflower, steel, gunsmoke. Clear concentration, with the same intensity of flavour as you get in the red wines of Margaux this vintage, structured with plentiful phenolics despite lower less stirring than usual. Smallest number of bottles ever produced because low 16hl/ha yield and 45% of the crop, so just 7,000 bottles. Hold +3 years ideally, and carafe. Harvest August 18-22, picked in between two heat spikes."
The Pavillon Blanc vineyards occupy prime sites within the Margaux appellation, planted on the same Günzian gravel beds that make the red wines famous. These deep gravel soils over limestone bedrock provide exceptional drainage whilst the limestone subsoil contributes crucial mineral backbone. The maritime influence from the nearby Gironde estuary moderates temperatures, allowing the Sauvignon Blanc to retain its natural acidity whilst developing complexity. This unique terroir produces Sauvignon Blanc unlike anywhere else in Bordeaux, with a tension and mineral drive that sets it apart from both the Loire and other white Bordeaux.
Margaux is the most elegant and perfumed of the Médoc's great communes, though the appellation rules permit white wine production alongside the famous reds. Few producers bother with white wine here, making Pavillon Blanc a rare expression of this terroir. The appellation's gravel soils and gentle slopes create ideal conditions for both Cabernet Sauvignon and, as Château Margaux proves, exceptional Sauvignon Blanc. The maritime climate and limestone subsoil contribute to wines of remarkable finesse, whether red or white, distinguishing Margaux from the power of Pauillac or the structure of Saint-Estèphe.
The 2025 Bordeaux vintage emerged from one of the most demanding growing seasons in recent memory — the earliest budbreak since 1989, June temperatures second only to 2003 since records began, and an unusually early harvest beginning in August for the whites. Conditions that should have produced heavy, overripe wines. They didn't. Decanter's Georgie Hindle, who tasted close to 200 wines ahead of the formal campaign, describes "exceptional concentration, aromatic purity and a freshness that contradicts the record-breaking heat.
The early critical consensus places 2025 stylistically between the precision of 2020 and the structure of 2016, with the brightness of 2023 — a combination that suggests a very serious vintage indeed. Yields are dramatically low, the smallest crop since 1991, with production across the Gironde running around 15% below the five-year average. The quality is here. There simply isn't very much of it.
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