Château Margaux: Tasting and Drinking

Château Margaux is an estate clearly worthy of its position as a first growth. The grand vin has bounced back from a period of under-performing in the 1970s, brought out of this era with great effect by André and then Corinne Mentzelopoulos, and of course their consultants and assistants, not least the late Paul Pontallier, and the current team of Philippe Bascaules and Sébastien Vergne.

Look back to the wines that were being made just a few decades and it would be rather more difficult to make such a kind statement; there is no doubt that, pre-Mentzelopoulos, there was a period of lacklustre under-performance here. But today (and over the last few decades) the wines that bear the distinctively elegant label of Château Margaux are without doubt some of the greatest wines of all Bordeaux, showing finesse, perfume, concentration and longevity.

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