Margaux is home to first growth Chateau Margaux. The wines from Margaux are generally the lightest and most feminine of the Medoc, with rounder fruit and less aggressive tannins.
Tasting notes: Rather youthful, nutty, toasted oak on the nose, with some dense, perfumed fruit. Gentle, balanced palate, with sweet fruit and supple tannins. Nicely put together, with a lovely floral style and appealing texture. Better than its Giscours stablemate. Very good indeed. 17+/20 thewinedoctor.com
Tasting notes: A great nose, very expressive, deep fruit with oak too, but it still carries that typical Margaux perfume. There is great appeal on the palate too; classic structure, but with a lovely velvety quality to the tannins, smothered in a blanket of fruit and texture. This can't be criticised for lack of typicité, it fits in very well here. The efforts at Lascombes in recent years have really paid off. 18+/20
Tasting notes: A great nose, very expressive, deep fruit with oak too, but it still carries that typical Margaux perfume. There is great appeal on the palate too; classic structure, but with a lovely velvety quality to the tannins, smothered in a blanket of fruit and texture. This can't be criticised for lack of typicité, it fits in very well here. The efforts at Lascombes in recent years have really paid off. 18+/20
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Tasting notes: This estate, which has continued to impress me in recent years, hit a home run in 2000. Showing slightly better than I rated it previously, this wine is deep bluish/purple with some lightening at the edge, and its floral nose displays notes of melted licorice, crushed rock, blueberries and black raspberries. A wine of extraordinary balance, equilibrium, and purity, with supple tannins, this medium to full-bodied, concentrated effort is already compelling and has hit its window of full maturity, where it should stay for another 15-20 years. 95/100 pts Robert Parker
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Tasting notes: The dark ruby/purple-colored 1999 Rauzan-Segla possesses medium to full body, impressive structure, moderate tannin, and excellent plum, black currant, and cherry fruit infused with camphor, earth, and iron characteristics. It is a substantial effort for the vintage. Robert Parker
Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot
Tasting notes: Fine deep colour, finely concentrated blackcurrant nose, good length and very fine expression
of fruit with potential complexity and fine tannins. A very good wine and one of the rare wines in
this line-up with breeding and class.
Drink 2007-2015 : DECANTER – June 2003
