2024 CHÂTEAU MARGAUX 1er Cru Classé, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU MARGAUX

2025 1er Cru Classé

Grapes Merlot, Cab Sauv, Cab Franc, Petit Verdot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Other Practising Organic
Sub-district Haut Médoc
Village Margaux
Classification 1er Cru Classé
ABV 13.8%

A blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2025 Château Margaux is a deep, authoritative wine that represents some 37% of the estate's production this year. Unwinding in the glass with notes of dark berries, violets, lilac and pencil shavings, framed by a deft touch of new oak, it's medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered, with a concentrated core of fruit framed by sweet, powdery tannins and lively acids. This will certainly require some patience, but it is a prodigious Château Margaux in the making. It checks in at 13.8% alcohol and a pH of 3.72. Rating: 97-100 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Apr 2026)


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More dense and yet more soft than the Pavillon Rouge, fully anchored in place and yet rising through the palate, with rose petals, pomegranate, cassis and damson fruits, so juicy and full of character, slate and crushed rocks, peony and iris, with volume that is expansive and striking. These guys held on to harvest after the rains and have been rewarded for it - can't have been easy as everyone was picking around them, but this was a great decision that shows just what was capable in this vintage. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, harvest September 8 for young Merlot, then Cabernet Sauvignon began September 19 and finished September 29. 14% press wine, so a little less than usual because of the natural concentration. 22hl/ha yield across the vineyard, IPT81,3.76ph. 37% 1st wine. I don't give 100 points En Primeur, but if I did, this would get it. It's a slam dunk. Drinking range: 2036 - 2055 Rating: 98-100 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (Apr 2026)

The 2025 Château Margaux is a wine that rewards patience. Tasting with Blandine de Rouffignac, the estate's lead oenologist, it was fascinating to hear how sugar ripeness raced ahead of phenolic ripeness by mid-August. Thankfully, cooler conditions at the end of the month bought valuable time, and the team resisted any temptation to rush. Confident in the health of the fruit, they waited for full ripeness before harvesting. That patience is evident in the glass. The wine combines remarkable concentration with an effortless sense of freshness. The fruit is beautifully ripe and abundant, with crunchy cassis, hints of peony and a touch of damp pot pourri adding aromatic complexity. Beneath it all runs a cool crushed-rock minerality that gives the wine energy and direction. The density here is striking, yet nothing feels heavy. Instead, the wine seems to gather momentum across the palate before a cool breeze of freshness carries it through the long, vibrant finish. A complete and deeply impressive Château Margaux, combining power, precision and grace in equal measure.L&S (Apr 2026)

The 2025 Château Margaux was picked at 22 hl/ha between 10 and 29 September. This year it represents 37% of the total crop, a little down on recent vintages, and was matured in 100% new oak as usual. The first thing that you notice on this Château Margaux is the purity of fruit, a signature of the First Growth but taken to its maximum in this vintage. Perfumed blueberry, crushed violet and iris flower, a touch of iodine and a distant trace of the estuary. Wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with velvety tannins, fine delineation and poise. There is backbone to this Margaux but it is disguised under the layers of pure blackberry and blueberry fruit, dovetailing into a lightly spiced but very persistent finish. It fans out wonderfully, completing a very alluring wine in the making. This vintage contains 13.8% alcohol. Drinking range: 2035 - 2065 Rating: 96-98 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (May 2026)

Château Margaux

1855 classification - Premier Grand Cru Classé Margaux, originally La Mothe de Margaux, has a long history dating back to at least the 12th Century. By the 17th Century, Margaux was widely recognised for the quality of their wines - in 1771 Château Margaux was the first wine sold by Christies, and Thomas Jefferson bought some Margaux when he was Ambassador to France. The French Revolution was a turbulent time for Margaux but, by the turn of the 19th Century, the estate was in the hands of the Basque Marquis de la Colonilla who's singular contribution was to build the château that we see today. Margaux's reputation was recognised by the 1855 classification which placed it among the elite group of Premier Grand Cru Classés. By the 1960's, however, Margaux was trading as much on reputation as anything else and a run of poor vintages in the 1970's led Margaux to be sold. This was its salvation, for the purchaser was André Mentzelpoulos who, despite some rumblings of discontent locally at such a grand property falling into "foreign" hands, poured in investment, replanting the vineyards, building a new underground cellar and renovating the château. Also more than renovated was Margaux's reputation as one of Bordeaux's leading estates, a reputation it now richly deserves, still under the benevolent eye of the Mentzelpoulos family. After 43 years, Alexis, supported by his sister Alexandra, has taken over from his mother Corrine. Alexis state he is "firmly committed to continuing the family objective of making Château Margaux one of the greatest wines in the world." Château Margaux is a large estate, running to nearly 265ha, although under vine there are only 82ha. For red wines the vines are 75% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot with smaller plantings of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Wines are fermented and aged in barrels made at Margaux's own cooperage, the reds spending up to two years in wood. The second wine of the estate is Pavillon Rouge de Château Margaux which has been produced since the 19th Century, making it among the longest established of such wines. Château Margaux also produce a very successful white wine - Pavillon Blanc de Château Margaux - 100% Sauvignon Blanc, aged in wood for six months. This is classified as AOC Bordeaux as there is no appellation for white Margaux.

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