Margaux

Fruit is the dominant note. Close-textured and cool and fresh youthful purple flavours to the fore. Tannins solidly gripping and blackly pure. Big and long.

Fragrant nose, full of wood, interesting, very silky and fresh, great seamless purity and delicacy of expression, still with enough body, richness and length. Like the 2004 (but even better), thi...(read more)

Fine, harmonious black fruit nose. Attractively fat, opulent and silky. Flavour builds on the palate, finishing really long with flavourful tannins. Suave and very long, sophisticated, elegant. A...(read more)

Much more restrained nose than the Pavillon, - you have to go looking for this one. Tight, minerally damson fruit. Overtones of the darkness of sloes. Ample and voluminous it remains right on the...(read more)

The Grand Vin is 86% Cabernet (the highest percentage ever) 7% Merlot (the lowest percentage ever) and 2% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot. Very fine Cabernet nose, very suave, red and black fr...(read more)

Nice nose, discreet but inviting. Bright fruit, in mouth this is perky and fun. Lively and tasty bright fruit, good spice and no hard edges but importantly not too fat - a ray of sunshine in the...(read more)

Tastes very natural, as though made of warm fruit on a hot summer's day. Nice nose of creamy ripe blackberry. Soft and cushiony, dry oak (tight grain) giving a little tug; easy. Well-done if a li...(read more)