Château Margaux

Château Margaux, 1er Cru Classé, Margaux, 2019

Name: Château Margaux, 1er Cru Classé, Margaux
Brand: Château Margaux
Price: 3021.53 GBP

100/100

Inside Bordeaux

100/100

The Wine Independent

99/100

Vinous

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2019
6x75cl
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£3,021.53
2019
6x75cl
DP
£3,237.53

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

This is one of the most sumptuous and graceful vintages of Chateau Margaux we can recall tasting. As ever the aromas are spectacular. There’s a slow reveal of flowers, berries, spices and then a complex array of minerals. Each time one explores the bouquet, one is met with fresh delights. What sets the 2019 apart from other vintages of Margaux is the texture and refinement of the mid-palate. There’s a creaminess to the pure fruit core, it coats the mouth, painting a three-dimensional flavour profile. It’s a real tour de force, a wine so effortless and controlled, yet exuberant and polished. The core of perfumed cassis keeps casting out new suggestions of humidors, tobacco, violets, licorice and Asian spice. The remarkable 2019 Margaux represents just 37% of the crop and is a blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon 7% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot.

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We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

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Critic Reviews

100/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

A blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2019 Chateau Margaux is deep garnet-purple in color. Classic scents of cassis, plum preserves, pencil shavings, and wild sage leap on the nose, followed by suggestions of underbrush, truffles, and iron ore. The medium to full-bodied palate is elegant and fresh, with firm, grainy tannins and an amazingly long savory finish. Forget this in the cellar for 6-8 years, then watch it produce fireworks for the following 40-years+.

drinking window 2029 - 2069

date of review 05/2023

99/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2019 Château Margaux, bottled in July 2021, is absolutely divine on the nose. It unfurls to reveal exquisitely defined black fruit infused with graphite, Japanese nori and just a hint of potpourri and crushed stone. This is supremely well focused, refined and correct, so much so that you would think it comes from a cooler growing season. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant, filigreed tannins that envelop the senses. Flavors of blackberry and bilberry, tinged with sea salt and black pepper, merge into a slightly more sensual finish that is still quintessentially Margaux. I used the word "effortless" in my note from barrel, and that rings true in bottle, though maybe there is now even more persistence. Quite stunning.

drinking window 2029 - 2065

date of review 02/2022

100/100

Jane Anson,

Inside Bordeaux

A wine that you sink into, drink in the aromatics before taking a sip. You can sense the velvety texture from the first moment. There is so much density here, and yet each tannin plays its part with skill, holding the perfumed black and blue fruits in place without restricting their expression. A signature Château Margaux, with so many different elements lending momentum and energy, and a feeling of effortless balance. 37% of total production, 100% new oak. Loved En Primeur, but this is an upscore.

drinking window 2030 - 2050

date of review 01/2022

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