Ch. Pavie Macquin

Next time you drink a great glass of Saint-Émilion, you have Ch. Pavie Macquin to thank. In the late 19th century, Albert Macquin introduced the vine growers of Bordeaux to grafting American rootstocks. He also became the property's owner and his descendants continue to run the estate more than 140 years later. A professor of the University of Bordeaux declared Macquin was "the grand master of the Saint-Emilion transformation" from ungrafted to grafted vines that could survive the onslaught of the phylloxera aphid in the future.