Although Pavillon Rouge is the second wine for Chateau Marguax, Pavillon Blanc is anything but a second wine - it is the white from the esteemed estate and is reckoned by Hugh Johnson the best white of the Medoc. Sold in the 19th century as "white Sauvignon wine", it was renamed Pavillon Blanc de Chateau Margaux in 1920 and the label on the bottle has more or less remain unchanged from that time. Made from 100% Sauvignon Blanc from an old plot which had remained outside the Margaux appellation, the wine is oak aged for some 7 to 8 months prior to bottling.
I tasted the 2003 vintage in a Bordeaux Blanc dinner in 2008. The wine was a deep yellow, with a crisp closed nose sporting a hint of tuna meatiness. The palate was rather clean with hints of fruit, well supported by an acid backbone. Reading the tasting notes in the official website, it would seem that the wine could have been tasted during a dumb phase, as the later tasting (in 2011) yielded better results.
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