Chateau Margaux, Rouge, 2020

Chateau Margaux are world-renowned for producing the finest wines in the Medoc. Indeed, they may be one of the reasons for the Margaux’s prestige.

One of the grandest, most imposing buildings amongst the Médoc châteaux, it sits atop land which has been producing wine many centuries before its construction.

Margaux wines are renowned for their perfumed elegance, but this should not be construed as meaning that these are light-bodied. Far from it, as the best have an enviable structure, layers of complexity, and formidable length.

This is a big wine, smoky and rich. With a higher proportion of Petit Verdot than in the past, it offers complexity and bold black fruits. The wine is structured while always ripe and generous.

On the nose, distinguished, fine, fruity, offering power (in finesse and fullness), a very nice finesse in its richness and in its grain, an airy power, freshness, excellence as well as a nice depth and width of the aromatic palette.

Notes of bright boysenberry, pulpy cassis and more lightly cornflower, violet, strawberry associated with touches of bourbon vanilla, lilac, saffron, star anise as well as discrete points of black tea and a subtle hint of hazelnut.