Margaux Red Bordeaux Blend

INCREDIBLE!! 💃🏻🕺. So happy. Store a wine for 10 years and the secret revealed. Doesn’t always happen, but here it did! Intense dark cherry, deeply laced with exquisite cigar, earthy minerality. Lead pencil. Yep it’s true, it is there. Still so intense and vibrant. Perfectly made wine. Should give the winemaker a hug! Great experience. The only bad thing is that I had to drink it by myself. My wine partner is in St Luis and experiencing an Opus One from 1982 😳. Wine, what a wonderful thing.

From magnum

Nearly flawless Bordeaux blend, this Margaux has subtle, but complex flavors (dark berries and mild spice), but mild tannin, enjoyed in Fontainebleau and Maine (Provisions)

2015 vintage. Poppin’ currently. 9.13.23.

2015 vintage. Last tasted 8.7.22. Rated 9.3. The spearmint and smoke fully invested in the nose. Medium body. Mushroom, coffee grounds, toffee, cinnamon, raisin still in the flavor profile. Tannins holding court on the finish. Initial impression was that the tannins were powdery but with a little bit of airtime, the tannins picked up serious steam. Best showing out of multiple bottles tasted in the last two years. Tasting now like top of the bell curve/the optimal pleasure zone will be roughly 2029-2039. Enough stuffing/fail safes to conservatively support that projection.

Medium purple/ruby with aromas of black cherries, anise, tobacco, dried herbs, and a bit of bell pepper. Dry with softened tannins. Medium-bodied with a decently long finish. Not bad, but not my favorite style.

2015 vintage. Nose is now dynamite. Baby fat almost entirely gonzo. Some toffee and cinnamon notes now flavor wise.

2015 vintage. Nose mostly spearmint and smoke. Medium body but (still) heavy for Margaux. A hint of baby fat remains up front but not nearly what was in your face just a year ago. This is growing old gracefully. Mushroom and dust in the nose. Coffee grounds, some light raisin/prune, tobacco, baking chocolate making their collective presence known on the back end. Thins out a tad bodywise on the finish but flavors hold their ground for an impressive distance.

Recently tasted 9.8.21, 7.28.21 and 6.1.21. Like the old Van Morrison album...a period of transition. Mid-palate a tad dumbed-down but the nose is clearer and airy with spearmint and tobacco. Some new cinnamon/clove infiltrating the bouquet and palate now. Still a little richness/baby fat/smoke lurking about but said intensities increasing less every time tasted. Really need to lock and key this until 2030. Good luck.

2015. Leather, blackberries, tobacco. Enjoyed with a steak.