MARGAUX · LEFT BANK

If Pauillac can be seen as the bastion of "traditional" Red Bordeaux, then Margaux represents its other facet in producing wines that are among the most sensual and alluring of Bordeaux. It is the biggest commune in the Médoc encompassing the communes of Cantenac, Soussans, Arsac andLabaude in addition to Margaux itself It is located in the centre of the Haut-Médoc, and is the closest of the important communes to the city of Bordeaux. The soils in Margaux are the lightest and most gravelly of the Médoc with some of the soils also containing a high percentage of sand. Vineyards located in Cantenac and Margaux make up the core of the appelation with the best vineyard sites being located on well-drained slopes. It is these lighter, well-drained soils which give Margaux its deft touch and silky perfumes. Further from the water there is a greater clay content and the wines are less dramatically perfumed. Margaux is the most diffuse of all the Médoc appelations with a reputation for scaling the heights with irreproachable wines such as Ch. Margaux and Ch. Palmer, but also plumbing the depths, with too many other Château not fulfilling their potential. There has been an upward shift in recent years, but the appellation cannot yet boast the reliability of St Julien. However the finest Margaux are exquisitely perfumed and and are models of refinement and subtlety which have few parallels in Bordeaux.

2021 CHÂTEAU BRANE CANTENAC
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+888284 · 6x750ml
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74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot, 1% Carmenère.
The toasty aromas of Brane-Cantenac are more pronounced this year. But on the palate, it still delivers a matured and sophisticated expression as usual, without any trace of the 2021's character. I really like the texture of the tannins, possesive yet ingenious, combined with a mellow density on the taste buds. This is not only a credit to R'pulse maceration, but also to the winery's near-frenzied selection of the press wine. Christophe, the technical director, told me that they have blended the best 12.7% from more than 100 samples into the Grand Vin, and eventually resulted in this surprising Brane-Cantenac 2021.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JMQ: 96 || JS: 95 || DC: 95 || JL: 95 || VN: 95 || JA: 94 || RP: 93 || NM: 93

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 16 || 15 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 06

2021 CHÂTEAU DURFORT-VIVENS
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· CERTIFIED BIODYNAMIC (2016)
+102900 · 6x750ml
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97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot.
Dominated by the Cabernets this year (the blend is 97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Merlot), this is a lovely fleshy attractive wine with classic aromas of blackcurrant, wildflowers, and a touch of liquorice. On the palate, the wine is round and smooth with good blackcurrant sweetness; some spice and lively, prickly tannins which are structured but well integrated. This year’s Durfort is a lovely, happy wine, very much at ease with itself and showing no trauma in spite of the difficult climate. It is elegantly balanced with an appetizing finish which brings the wine’s different characteristics together.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
WE: 95-96 || VN: 95 || JS: 94-95 || DC: 94 || RP: 93 || JA: 93 || TA: 93 ||
JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 08 || 05

2021 CHÂTEAU GISCOURS
· MARGAUX AOC   3RD GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+102695 · 6x750ml
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65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot.
2021 was marked by a memorable harvest, in which we had to be patient, make precise choices and wait for each vine plant, each plot and each terroir to be ready to surrender its berries. The harvesting of the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes lasted more than a month, sometimes with intervals of several days, inviting the grapes to achieve their best expression. That precision shines through in this Château Giscours: a luminous wine, with the aromatic brilliance and fine tannins we look for at Giscours. A lovely, balanced structure, with a great freshness. Château Giscours 2021 is the perfect expression of the vintage. It reveals the risk-taking and meticulous work required of our teams, in deep harmony with our terroir. It is a wine we are proud of.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 94+ || VN: 95 || JS: 94-95 || JL: 94 || DC: 93 || JA: 93 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 08 || 05 || 04 ||
00 || 96 ||

2020 CHÂTEAU GISCOURS
· MARGAUX AOC   3RD GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+758854 · 12x750ml
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56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot.
For this 2020 vintage, our aim was to continue in the same vein as 2019, while preserving the typical characteristics of Château Giscours. To achieve this, our objective was to work on two notions that are close to our hearts: aromatic brilliance and fine tannins. The technical team at Giscours took great care to give each plant individual attention. Our vine-growers and winemakers have detailed knowledge of the terroir and the rows they are in charge of, and they consider these plots of vines as micro-gardens that they tend with great care. We are very proud of the 2020 vintage. Our team’s in- depth knowledge of the terroir and their risk-taking have produced a voluptuous wine. It is generous, with great personality. It has all the power and fleshiness of Château Giscours and evokes a taffeta texture with silky tannins. It is a vintage that reflects the meticulous and bold approach that guided our team during this atypical year.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 96 || JL: 96 || VN: 96 || RP: 95+ || DC: 95 || NM: 94 || JD: 94+ || WS: 92

VINTAGE NOTES:
20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 08 || 05 || 04 || 00 ||
96 ||

2016 CHÂTEAU GISCOURS
· MARGAUX AOC   3RD GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+744970 · 12x750ml
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81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot.
Giscours is undeniably classic with a high proportion of Cabernet: Here there is 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Merlot and so the wine has typical aromas of blackcurrant, spice, cedar, plums and vanilla. Deep and intense and quite dark but lifted by good freshness and energetic tannins, this is a lovely wine that follows up well on the successful 2015.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 96 || WE: 96 || RP: 93 || NM 94 || VN: 94 || DC: 94 || JR: 16.5+

VINTAGE NOTES:
16 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 10 || 09 || 08 || 05 || 04 || 00 || 96

2016 CHÂTEAU LABÉGORCE
· MARGAUX AOC   CRU BOURGEOIS EXCEPTIONNEL
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+813885 · 12x750ml
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52% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot.
Dark, voluptuous black cherry fruit, sweet and vivacious. Good grip and acidity. The most ambitious wine yet from the team that took over here from 2010, with more density and richness.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
NM: 93 || VN: 93 || JD: 93 || JS: 92 || WS: 92 || JA: 92 || WE: 91 || JR: 16+

VINTAGE NOTES:
16 || 17 || 15 || 12

2016 CHÂTEAU LASCOMBES
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+869813 · 6x750ml
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50% Merlot, 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot.
The nose is fine, elegant, and seductive and offers a fine concentration of aromas, with everything in balance. Blackberry, coffee, and fine notes of red berry fruit come through together with touches of liquorice stick, mocha, spices, as well as discreet hints of cardamom. The palate is elegant, suave, and round and offers flesh, nice definition, precision, minerality, tension, lovely harmony, depth of flavour as well as fine acidity. Notes of fresh blackberry, juicy blackcurrant, and subtle raspberry hints, together with notes of red berries/fresh redcurrants as well as a touch of toasted bread and mocha/chocolate
Chateau Lascombes is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Also great with appetizers, Roasted lamb, braised veal, rib of beef with bones and pan-seared mushrooms; Hard cheese, such as tommes or gouda.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 95 || RP: 94+ || JD: 94 || VN: 93 || WE: 93 || JA: 93 || WS: 92 || NM: 88 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
16 || 10 || 09 || 05

2021 CHÂTEAU MALESCOT ST.-EXUPERY
· MARGAUX AOC   3RD GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+848997 · 6x750ml
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49% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot.
Medium-deep crimson. Cassis and carob hints with vegemite aromas. Chocolaty palate with blackcurrant, malty flavours, and fine grained/ gritty textures. Very good mid-palate richness and mineral length.
Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes.

STATUS: OPEN
JS: 94 || VN: 94 || RP: 93 || JL: 93 || JR: 17

VINTAGE NOTES:
21 || 20 || 19 || 18 || 17 || 16 || 15 || 14 || 12 || 11 || 06 || 00

2015 CHÂTEAU MARQUIS DE TERME
· MARGAUX AOC   4TH GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION & ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION
+890698 · 12x750ml
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60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 33% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot.
The robe is a dark red color, with elegant garnet tinted reflections. The nose reveals a beautiful purity of fruit, with notes of black cherry, raspberry and black currant, enhanced by pepper and cocoa. The attack is supple, giving way to a silky and dense body carried by elegant tannins. Evolving with precision on greedy flavors of red berries and spices, it rises crescendo in volume and freshness. It blooms on a long, fruity and persistent finish. A Margaux wine of great finesse.
Château Marquis de Terme 2015 will pair deliciously with a Châteaubriand with truffle sauce, a famous roast chicken, duck breast with Pinot Noir sauce, venison hazelnuts or veal grenadin with morel sauce. For a pairing with cheese, prefer pressed and uncooked cheeses: cantal, old mimolette, morbier, saint-nectaire and tomme de Savoie. It can also be enjoyed with Brie de Meaux, Gouda or Salers. For dessert, it will be particularly exquisite with a raspberry and chocolate charlotte, Ricardo Larrivée's chocolate cake or a praline entremet.

STATUS: OPEN
WS: 92 || RP: 92 || NM: 92 || JS: 94 || WE: 94 || DC: 93 || JL: 94 || VN: 93 || JD: 93 || JMQ: 92 || JR: 16.5

VINTAGE NOTES:
15

2017 CHÂTEAU RAUZAN-GASSIES
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND GRAND CRU CLASSÉ
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+869824 · 12x750ml
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76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot.
With its blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (76%), complemented by Merlot (23%) and Petit Verdot (1%), the Chateau Rauzan-Gassies 2017 displays a superb profile, full of the nuances of this peculiar vintage. The wine presents a wonderful combination of power and finesse. Full of elegance, the bouquet reveals fresh and pure aromas of black berries, evolving on beautiful mineral notes that echo the terroir of origin in Margaux. On the palate, the wine develops a very dense and silky texture, emphasizing the discreet power of the tannins. The mid-palate is also quite mellow, stretching into a lingering finish. Undoubtedly one of the most successful vintages of Rauzan-Gassies in the last 10 years.
Chateau Rauzan Gassies is best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised, and grilled dishes. Chateau Rauzan Gassies is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms, and pasta as well as cheese.

STATUS: OPEN
RP: 94+ || WE: 93 || JS: 91-92 || DC: 89 || JD: 89-91 || JMQ: 89

VINTAGE NOTES:
17

2019 LE ROSE DE GISCOURS
· MARGAUX AOC
· ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY VITICULTURE
+843938 · 6x750ml
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70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot.
A unique creation reflecting the elegance and freshness that lead the elaboration of our Grand Cru Classé Château Giscours. A plot of Cabernet Sauvignon has been chosen and especially conducted for a year-long to elaborate this aromatic Rosé full of freshness. This Rosé de Giscours shows a beautiful light colour, with subtle aromas of white flowers and offers an elegantly harmonious palate. A perfect balance between roundness and energy!
To enjoy as an aperitif, with cold meats, grills, summer salads.

STATUS: OPEN

VINTAGE NOTES:
19

2018 LES HAUTS DU TERTRE
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND WINE
· HVE3 CERTIFICATION
+758870 · 12x750ml
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40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc.
A second wine from this classified fifth growth, the quality of the wine follows in the Chateau’s modern resurgence, using the younger vines from the prestigious estate. Grown in predominantly gravel, with some sand on gentle slopes the wine is very earth driven. The 2018 vintage offers a rich aromatic complexity. Les Hauts du Tertre is a gorgeous second wine. Black cherry, smoke, grilled herbs, licorice, menthol, spice, tobacco infuse this supple, gorgeous Margaux. Les Hauts stands out for its superb purity of fruit and fabulous overall balance.
Fried sweetbreads in balsam vinegar with caramelised baby onions; salmis of pigeon. Best served with all types of classic meat dishes, veal, pork, beef, lamb, duck, game, roast chicken, roasted, braised and grilled dishes. Chateau du Tertre is a perfect match with Asian dishes, hearty fish courses like tuna, mushrooms and pasta as well as cheese.

STATUS: OPEN
WE: 92 || FM: 92 || DC: 91 || JS: 89-90 || JMQ: 87 || NM: 86-88 || VN: 86-88

VINTAGE NOTES:
18 || 09 || 08

2022 PAVILLON BLANC 2nd VIN
· MARGAUX AOC   2ND WINE
· SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES - NOT CERTIFIED
+104033 · 3x750ml
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100% Sauvignon Blanc.
Pavillon Blanc Second Vin comes from a separate plot to the Grand Vin, consisting of 11ha of Sauvignon Blanc. This has all the class and vivacity of Pavillon Blanc, with subtle influence of 25% new oak barrels. Only 8000 bottles were produced. Pavillon Blanc Second Vin has a complex and floral nose, leading to a creamy palate balanced by a fresh, saline finish.
The white wine of Chateau Margaux, Pavillon Blanc can be paired perfectly with all types of seafood, shellfish, sushi, sashimi, veal, chicken, pork, and assorted cheeses.

STATUS: OPEN

VINTAGE NOTES:
22