This was the vintage when we inaugurated the new white wine cellar in the Abel Laurent outbuildings between Château Margaux and Margaux village. This cellar, whose design was based on the ideas of Emile Peynaud, included an air-conditioned room, where all the barrels of the harvest could be placed. This allowed us to both control temperature during the fermentation and accelerate tartaric precipitation during the winter. 1980 is one of Pavillon Blanc's lesser vintages, both in terms of quantity and quality. But as usual, ageing in bottle has given it a complexity which we had not expected even if should ideally have been drunk by now (October 2018)