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Last Year EP $98.00-Henri Lurton, the proprietor here, has been working to improve quality in the vineyard. Recent vintages have been outstanding and this property is now producing the best wines in Margaux behind the superstars of Chteaux Margaux, Palmer and Rauzan Ségla.A linear and focused wine ...

Last Year EP $526.00-Bordeaux Blend: 100% Sauvignon Blanc.This is the dry white wine of Chteau Margaux, made from 100% Sauvignon Blanc in 11 hectares of vines.Really pure and precise, with a fascinating mineral drive to the fruit. Bright but textured on the palate, with a medium to full body. There ...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc (1%), Petit Verdot (1%).Really impressive depth, concentration and perfume this year, with fine tannins. Lots of violets, red flowers, black cherries and currants. Full-bodied and seriously structured, with impeccable freshness and a very lo...

Last year EP $498.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.2nd Growth 1855.Traditionally the finest wine of the Médoc after the first growths.The 2024 Palmer is wonderfully vivid and expressive. Strong Cabernet Sauvignon inflections make a strong first impression. Blue/purplish fruit, gravel, ...

Last year EP $82.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec (2%), Petit Verdot (2%).This 55 hectare Margaux property is planted a majority Cabernet Sauvignon, with a good proportion of Merlot. Newly purchased plots containing old vines of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot ha...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot.This is the second wine of Chteau Palmer. It is always very smooth and supple thanks to a high proportion of Merlot in the blend. In 2024 Alter Ego is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot and 6% Petit Verdot from a yield of only 22hl/ha.The 2024...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc (0.5%).The 2024 Durfort-Vivens is laced with dark blue/purplish fruit, lavender, liquorice, spice and mocha. It offers gorgeous texture and fine balance. The pliant, creamy mid-palate is especially appealing. The 2024 is naturally still comi...

50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot.Chteau Palmer 2015 shows a very deep crimson colour. From the very first moment, the intensity of the nose acknowledges the outstanding quality of the vintage. Black fruit aromas mingle nicely with precious notes of spices. Its luxurious mouth embr...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.This estate was classified a 3rd growth (like Palmer) in 1855. 2022 is a blend of 69% Cabernet Sauvignon and 31% Merlot.The 2022 Cantenac Brown has an elegant nose, showing pure black cherry, wild strawberry, blackcurrant pastilles and cedar aromas. I appre...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit VerdotA classic Margaux vineyard. 3rd Growth. The 95 hectares of vines are planted with 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot.The 2022 Giscours has a delightful and sensual bouquet with lifted, viol...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot.Fairly tannic but super cool and fresh too with cola and blueberry nuanced. Chewy but really juicy, an approachable fun and easy wine still with bite, tang, juiciness and tannic density. Very appealing still with bite. Not as d...

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc.Margaux's second wine is made from a serious selection process that takes place at this first growth chteau. 2022 is a blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot (none in the grand vin) and 5% Cabernet Franc.G...

Last Year EP $645.00-Traditionally the finest wine of the Médoc after the first growths. The talented wine-maker is Thomas Duroux who always produces a pure, smooth and elegant wine with (for the Médoc) a high proportion of Merlot in the blend.The blend is 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 46% Merlot, 4% Pe...

Last year EP $52.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot.4th GrowthSmartly constructed, with a slow unrolling of the blackberry fruits, sweet raspberry and strawberry puree, sage and white pepper spice, a touch of leafiness through the mid palate but fragrant and charming. Harves...

Last year EP $61.50-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot.The 2024 Marquis de Terme comes across as sultry and lacks the fruit intensity of its peers at the moment, though it is delineated and fresh with no green traits. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, a bit more ...

Last year EP $89.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot.3rd Growth.This is a classic Margaux vineyard (95 hectares) that is under Dutch ownership and management. The 2024 is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot.The 2024 Giscou...

Last year EP $132.00-Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot (2%), Cabernet Franc (0.5%).Now comfortably established in the super-second league. Huge efforts have been made by owners Chanel to make great wine at Rauzan. A wonderful Margaux second growth. 2024 blend is 63.5% Cabernet...

This estate of 60 hectares was classified a 3rd growth (like Palmer) in 1855.2024 is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27.5% Merlot and the balance Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.The 2024 Cantenac Brown is a classic wine from the chteau. Even in this vintage, all the signatures are present. Opulen...

Last Year EP $52.00-Subdued on the first nose, again showing that parts of Margaux need a little bit of coaxing in this vintage to open up at this early stage. When it does, you find sculpted and deliciously spicy fruit, rose petals, cocoa bean and cassis, with tannic grip that slowly builds though ...

Last Year EP $132.00-Henri Lurton, the proprietor here, has been working to improve quality in the vineyard with regrafting of Merlot to high quality Cabernet Sauvignon as they look to keep freshness and structure in the wines. Recent vintages have been outstanding and this property is now producing...

Last Year EP $112.00-This 55 hectare Margaux property (3rd Growth 1855) is planted a majority Cabernet Sauvignon, with a good proportion of Merlot. Newly purchased plots containing old vines of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot have been added to the blend from 2020. The Cruse family brought in new in...

Last Year EP $66.00-70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Cabernet Franc, 15% Merlot.Enjoyably velvety and silky fresh aromatics, this is Cabernet dominant in character, meaning slim and savoury, and hard to argue with. Has plenty of grip and power as it opens, with cassis bud, blackberry and crayon, together...

Last Year EP $52.00-This 25 hectare property (5th Growth 1855) in Margaux is owned by the Miailhe family who used to own Pichon Lalande and a part of Chteau Palmer. The quality has improved enormously recently. The consultant is Hubert de Bouard of Angélus.The 2023 is 49% Merlot, 41% Cabernet Sauvi...

Last Year EP $39.00-2nd wine of Brane Cantenac2023 is 48% cabernet sauvignon, 43% merlot, 7% cabernet franc, 1% carmenere and 1% petit verdot.Baron de Brane once again sets the bar high in terms of 2nd wines, with fragrant floral aromatics, nuance and depth from the attack and continuing through the...