2020 CHÂTEAU LABÉGORCE Cru Bourgeois Supérieur Margaux, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU LABÉGORCE

2020 Cru Bourgeois Supérieur Margaux

Grapes Cab Franc, Cab Sauv, Petit Verdot, Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Margaux
Classification Cru Bourgeois Supérieur
ABV 14%

Really good nose. Leads to the palate which is just so well balanced. Poised and a good, satisfying feel. Well loaded with a smoothly-framed concentration of dark berries and luscious black fruited broth. Aromatics are more high-toned - adding a nice lifted feel. There is a sense of grandeur somehow from the length and breadth here. Classy Margaux that will give great pleasure for 10-15 years. Thankfully this is once again very fairly priced with no rise from last year. 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, 2% Petit Verdot. L&S (May 2021)


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Château Labégorce

Nathalie Perrodo brought her father's dream to reality with the 2010, the 'first' vintage from the newly reunited Labégorce vineyards, after they had spent a couple of centuries split into three. The Labégorce vineyard seems to have been named after an Abbé Gorsse, but the truth is somewhat shrouded in mystery. Feret, in his edition of 1865, mentions the existence of the noble La Bégorce house in Margaux from 1332. The estate was split into three after the revolution. The part that was named Labégorce Zédé in 1840 was reintegrated for the first time since then in 2010. Hubert Perrodo bought Labégorce in 1989, and the buildings of l'Abbé Gorsse de Gorsse in 2002 (the vineyard of this one escaped him, bought by Château Margaux). But his dream of re-uniting the historic Labégorce estate after he bought Labégorce Zédé in 2005 was cut short by his death in a ski-ing accident at Courchevel in 2006. After a couple of years of reflection, his twenty-five year-old daughter Nathalie has taken up the challenge of continuing his work, directing this really quite large domaine which also includes the fifteen hectares of the Cru Classé Château Marquis d'Alesme.

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