Chateau Pavie Macquin, Premier Grand Cru Classes B, St. Emilion 2014

"In 2018, the Léoville-Barton, a top Bordeaux estate, produced a top-notch wine at a reasonable price. The 2018 Léoville-Barton is a masterpiece of Saint Julien style, with a bouquet of opulent blackcurrant, blackberry, and plum fruits, cedar, cocoa, violet, herb, and toasty oak tones. The flavors are luscious and attractive, with exotic nuances of herb, cedar, cigar-box, cocoa, and baking spice." - Wine Review Online

Food Pairings: This wine pairs well with beef, lamb, venison and poultry. 

Tasting Notes:

One of the great Bordeaux families owns this vineyard, and the wine is already well-balanced in terms of fruit and tannins. The Cabernet Sauvignon's powerful black cherry notes give the wine's structure a luscious quality. It will mature nicely and is rich. Goes nicely with chicken, wild game, and red meats.

Tasting notes : 

Rich and seductive with plush, rounded tannins and seamless freshness. Flavors of crème de cassis, graphite, white flowers, cedar herbs, and tobacco lead to a long, opulent finish.

Food pairing : 

Pairs well with Grilled or roasted red meats such as beef and lamb.

Tasting Notes:

The Gruaud-Larose wines combine finesse and balance, and are less tannic than they were in the past. Made to be aged for several years, and a many years in the best vintages, they need at least ten years to soften before drinking. Their colour is almost black, and the bouquet presents powerful aromas of red fruit. On the palate, they reveal themselves to be creamy, full-bodied and rich.

A classic expression of Pomerol elegance, the 2014 Château Vray Croix de Gay offers plush red fruit, silky tannins, and refined complexity. Crafted from old vines on the famed Right Bank, this wine showcases the charm of Merlot with notes of ripe plum, dark cherry, and subtle hints of cocoa and truffle.

Well-balanced with a long, velvety finish, it’s a wine of depth and finesse — approachable now but capable of aging gracefully for several more years.

Tasting Notes:
Red berries, black plum, mocha, dried herbs, soft spice

Food Pairing:
Perfect with roast duck, beef tenderloin, mushroom risotto, or aged cheeses.

Style:
Full-bodied, smooth, and elegant

Tasting Notes:

The 2016 Le Carillon d'Angelus, which represents a higher percentage of the total production this year, has a tightly wound blackberry and briary-scented bouquet with admirable delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin, harmonious and rounded in style with just the right amount of salinity on the finish to beckon you back for another sip. This is a lovely Deuxième Vin built to give pleasure.

Pairing:

Braised Lamb Shank, Eggplant Parmigiana, Cured Meat

Medium to deep, darkly-pigmented, ruby-red in color. Aromas are of fresh cassis & slightly leafy notes. On the palate clean cedary oak dominates the blackcurrant fruit. The wine is of mid-weight with good acidity. Fine cedary tannins marry seamlessly with dark cherry fruit comprise the mid-palate the finish. This wine pairs well with beef, lamb, wild game (venison) and poultry.

Tasting notes : 

Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2016 La Gaffelière opens with compelling wild blueberries, freshly crushed plums and kirsch scents plus hints of garrigue, underbrush, rose hip tea and pencil lead. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is wonderfully elegant with a soft, velvety texture and seamless freshness carrying the multilayered fruit to a long finish.

Food pairing : 

Pairs well with Herb-crusted roast beef, lamb dishes.