2024 Margaux

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Such a floral wine, aromatics that really take hold and grip on through the palate, raspberry, black cherry, edges of rosebud, chalk, white tea, crayon, chalk, iris, has real precision, and a slow-burn unspooling of flavours, salted cracker salinity on the finish. 46% of the overall production is in Château Margaux, 30hl/ha yield after sorting through the year as needed. Harvest September 23 to October 8. Philippe Bascaules director, 3.62ph. Excellent quality, one of the wines of the vintage, with a slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest.
96/100 Jane Anson

(Margaux; 93% Cabernet Sauvignon; 5% Merlot; 1% Cabernet Franc; 1% Petit Verdot; impressively, the grand vin represents 46% of the production, rather than the more usual 40% due to the higher yielding Cabernet Sauvignon; a final yield of 30 hl/ha due to the aggressiveness of the mildew, especially for the Merlot on clay soils, with the Cabernet Sauvignon on gravel much less impacted; the early-harvesting parcels were excellent and fully ripe, the rest proved more difficult; there were no problem here with floraison; a final yield of 30 hl/ha due to mildew losses predominantly suffered in Merlot parcels; IPT 64; 12.8% alcohol; 13% vin de press [comparatively low]; tasted at the property with Philippe Bascaules and Sébastien Vergne). We are in the realm of Cabernet Sauvignon here and I find this gloriously expressive and expansive in its Cabernet purity. White and red currant. A little touch of mulberry. Bramble. Blackberry. A hint of black cherry skin – if perhaps more textural than aromatic. This is, for now, a little less floral than it has been en primeur in recent vintages. Graphite and a touch of scratched new leather. Walnut oil. A peppery virgin olive oil note. In the mouth, this is super-gracious on the cool, soft, almost voluptuous attack (entry is a better – a softer – word). Layered, like Pavillon rouge, with much more vertical than horizontal range. Not the pixilated purity and delineation of some recent vintages. I believe them entirely when they tell me that this is better with the press wine and that the press wine is very fine but it does not yet feel fully integrated into the core of the mid-palate. But what I love is the cool, dark sensuous quality that is both so very beguiling and so essentially ‘Margaux’. The fruit profile on the finish is a little more red in hue – loganberry replacing the black berry fruits. Very fresh and lively, cool and precise and texturally enticing.
93-95/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. After a little swirling, notes of fresh blackberries, red currants, and mulberries slowly emerge from the glass, plus nuances of pencil shavings, wild thyme, and crushed rocks. The light-bodied palate is tightly wound with mineral-spiked red and black berry flavors, framed by firm, very fine-grained tannins and bold freshness, finishing long and earthy. Very pretty.
94-96/100+ Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent