
Château Margaux, 1er Cru Classé, Margaux, 2024
Hailing from the “heart of the terroir" and produced from 93% Cabernet Sauvignon 5% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the glorious Chateau Margaux 2024 is sure to appeal to the purists. This is just superb, there’s not a hair out of place, an immaculately turned-out example, which transcends the vintage with uncommon grace and fluidity. A typically expressive bouquet of flowers and wild herbs mingles with fine hedgerow fruits and graphite. The palate is super-refined with layers of minty cassis and detailed, fine minerals; there’s depth and texture without excessive weight, just pure, persistent flavours of sweet griotte, cedar and blood orange on the impeccably polished tannins. Splendid!
critic reviews
Deep garnet-purple colored. After a little swirling, notes of fresh blackberries, red currants, and mulberries slowly emerge from the glass, plus nuances of pencil shavings, wild thyme, and crushed rocks. The light-bodied palate is tightly wound with mineral-spiked red and black berry flavors, framed by firm, very fine-grained tannins and bold freshness, finishing long and earthy. Very pretty.
Representing 46% of the total crop (a little higher than recent years due to higher yields in the best Cabernet blocks), the 2024 Château Margaux contains slightly less Merlot (5%). It has a sophisticated bouquet in the context of the growing season, with black fruit, pressed violet and hints of pencil box that almost lend a Pauillac-like allure. Very fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and modest depth. This is clearly a leaner Château Margaux compared to, say, the 2020 or 2022, but it is razor-sharp with superb tension and <em>mineralité</em>. Unapologetically classic in style with modest length, this noble First Growth will benefit from four to five years in bottle.
Such a floral wine, aromatics that really take hold and grip on through the palate, raspberry, black cherry, edges of rosebud, chalk, white tea, crayon, chalk, iris, has real precision, and a slow-burn unspooling of flavours, salted cracker salinity on the finish. 46% of the overall production is in Château Margaux, 30hl/ha yield after sorting through the year as needed. Harvest September 23 to October 8. Philippe Bascaules director, 3.62ph. Excellent quality, one of the wines of the vintage, with a slightly earlier starting date for drinking than usual, eight years following harvest.
The 2024 Chateau Margaux has turned out beautifully, unfurling in the glass with notes of cassis, violets, cigar box and iris. Medium to full-bodied, deep and vibrant, with excellent density and concentration for the vintage, it's lively and layered, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. This is a serious, youthfully tightly wound blend of 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdot and 1% Cabernet Franc that attained 12.8% alcohol.
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