Château Malescot St Exupery, 3ème Cru Classé, Margaux, 2020

Name: Château Malescot St Exupery, 3ème Cru Classé, Margaux
Brand: Château Malescot St Exupery
Price: 297.94 GBP

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critic reviews

93/100Neal Martin,Vinous

The 2020 Malescot Saint-Exupéry is oaky on the nose. At the moment, the wood occludes the fruit profile, but it will assimilate with time, and there is satisfying delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with a sweeter entry than its peers, perhaps due to more extraction or later picking. It retains decent freshness, although it just needs to muster a little more restraint and grace, which may well develop with bottle age. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.

DRINKING WINDOW 2027 - 2047

date of review 11/2024

95/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,The Wine Independent

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2020 Malescot St. Exupery is a little sluggish and broody to begin, before cutting loose with notes of crushed red currants, warm cassis, and black raspberries, followed by hints of cardamom, violets, and black pepper. Medium to full-bodied, rich and plush, it delivers bags of opulent black and red fruits and fantastic persistence.

DRINKING WINDOW 2026 - 2052

date of review 03/2023

95-97/100Lisa Perrotti-Brown,Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Sporting a deep purple-black color, the 2020 Malescot St. Exupery prances out of the glass with showy scents of ripe black and red currants, black cherries, raspberry leaves and ground cloves, plus wafts of lilacs and tilled soil. Medium to full-bodied, the palate delivers mouth-coating black and red fruit layers with a firm, grainy texture and well-balanced acidity, finishing on a lingering fragrant-earth note.

DRINKING WINDOW 2026 - 2050

date of review 05/2021