Château Ferrière
Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend
Margaux, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
Minerals, bright sweet cherry fruit, in great shape.
Minerals, bright sweet cherry fruit, in great shape.
2 people found it helpfulFeb 9th, 2014
This is still the classiest label design in all of Bordeaux. I want to design my future living room with the greens and whites of a Ferrière bottle. And if it's a 95 with a velvet finish sexier than Scarlett Johansson's skin? Well call me Buffalo Bill and decorate my living room. That got creepy there at the end didn't it?
This is still the classiest label design in all of Bordeaux. I want to design my future living room with the greens and whites of a Ferrière bottle. And if it's a 95 with a velvet finish sexier than Scarlett Johansson's skin? Well call me Buffalo Bill and decorate my living room. That got creepy there at the end didn't it?
Apr 1st, 2016
This was a very satisfying bottle, perhaps even out of proportion to where it stands as a matter of raw "quality" or however you want to put it. It's a firmly old-style Bordeaux, with a profile of red orchard fruits, old wood and spicebox, and unapologetically astringent tannins that don't really relax until it gets a chance to warm up from cellar temperature. It is still young, probably a decade from its zone, but there is something about it that reaches really far back and reminds me of some of the antique early 20C Bordeaux I've had. It's not that it tastes advanced, but it's in the style, like a young man wearing a vintage wardrobe, and I can easily imagine it getting to a similar state one of these days. It's still got plenty of density and seve at the core so I see a firm constitution here. The chateau's reputation was in the doldrums in this period although this wine was reasonably well-reviewed. At this point it's an unqualified success. I paid $25 for this, this year!
This was a very satisfying bottle, perhaps even out of proportion to where it stands as a matter of raw "quality" or however you want to put it. It's a firmly old-style Bordeaux, with a profile of red orchard fruits, old wood and spicebox, and unapologetically astringent tannins that don't really relax until it gets a chance to warm up from cellar temperature. It is still young, probably a decade from its zone, but there is something about it that reaches really far back and reminds me of some of the antique early 20C Bordeaux I've had. It's not that it tastes advanced, but it's in the style, like a young man wearing a vintage wardrobe, and I can easily imagine it getting to a similar state one of these days. It's still got plenty of density and seve at the core so I see a firm constitution here. The chateau's reputation was in the doldrums in this period although this wine was reasonably well-reviewed. At this point it's an unqualified success. I paid $25 for this, this year!
Dec 9th, 2015
Nose cedary and nice but rough-edged and likely past its prime.
Nose cedary and nice but rough-edged and likely past its prime.
Jun 20th, 2015
