The 2019 Pavillon Rouge is a smooth, elegant Bordeaux blend with fresh berry and floral notes. It’s soft but layered, with fine tannins and a velvety texture. Ready to enjoy now but will shine even more after some bottle age.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 96
Published: Feb 20, 2022

Fresh tobacco, currant and earth, opening up to forest flowers. it'srich in tannins, but very soft and beautiful. Layered, with lots of fine fruit and a velvety texture. Blackberry and chocolate in the finish too. 27% of the crop and a blend of 76% cabernet sauvignon and 19% merlot, the rest petit verdot and cabernet franc. Delicious already, but give it at least six years of bottle age. Better after 2027.

The Wine Advocate | RP 95
Published: Feb 20, 2022
Drink: 2025-2050

Given that Margaux's second wine contains plenty of fruit that made it into the grand vin just a decade or two ago, great things are to be expected from this bottling. Yet I was nonetheless taken aback by the quality of the 2019 Pavillon Rouge. Wafting from the glass with aromas of raspberries, plums and cherries mingled with rose petals and sweet spices, it'smedium to full-bodied, sensual and concentrated, with beautifully refined tannins, racy acids and a long, penetrating finish. This is an exquisite Pavillon Rouge that is well worth seeking out. I confess that I don't buy many second wines, but I did purchase a case of this, with alacrity, right after tasting it. 

Decanter | D 94
Published: Jan 5, 2022
Drink: 2024-2038

Lovely perfumed Merlot type fragrance on the nose, soft, delicate but defined giving blackcurrant and cherry aromas. Lovely texture here, so smooth, with an element of ripeness in the dark berry fruit but also seering freshness that lifts the palate, juicy and highly toned. Such a nice nuance of freshness and cooling fruit. The texture is dense but so soft you get an impression of cream. There's a real quality to the tannins and framing of the fruit, textured and fresh. Delicious. 2% Cabernet Franc completes the blend.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 14.20%
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 76% Cabernet Sauvignon 19% Merlot 3% Petit Verdot

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 16.5
Published: Jan 18, 2023
Drink: 2026-2043

Tasted blind. Glowing crimson. Creamy texture, buttery nose. Round fruit, which really grabs the palate and brain, and almost disguises the tannic power behind it. Really nice wine! Accessible. Long. 

Chateau-margaux.com

The assemblage of the Pavillon Rouge 2019 is still dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (76%). It has the same proportion of Merlot as the previous vintage (19%). Cabernet Franc (2%) and Petit Verdot (3%) complete the assemblage.

The grapes used to produce the Pavillon Rouge 2019 were carefully selected and represent only 27% of the harvest. The wine has body with a soft tannin structure and is remarkably balanced on the palate. It would probably have formed an integral part of the assemblage of our Grands Vins two decades ago. In our vineyards and cellars, we make the same painstaking effort to produce the batches used for the Pavillon Rouge as we do for our Grand Vin. Both wines undoubtedly have the same style, and some of the same aromas. One almost indefinable detail is sometimes missing, which means the batch is not included in the composition of the Grand Vin. (April 2022)