We inaugurated, for the 1980 harvest, the new white wine cellar, located in the Abel Laurent outbuildings between Château Margaux and the village of Margaux. This cellar, designed with the advice of Emile Peynaud, included an air‑conditioned room where all the barrels of the harvest could be stored. This made it possible both to control the temperature during fermentation and to accelerate tartaric precipitation over the winter.

1980 is one of Pavillon Blanc’s lesser vintages, both in terms of quantity and quality. Yet, as is often the case, bottle ageing has allowed it to acquire a complexity that was not initially expected, even if today it would ideally already have been consumed. (October 2025)