Château Margaux - Margaux 2008 (1.5L)
Price: $1200.00
| Producer | Château Margaux |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Margaux |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Sku | 2006029 |
| Size | 1.5L |
Decanter: 97 Points
This stood out immediately among the five first growth wines for its floral hit right off the first nose. The epitome of elegance as I found at the 10-year point but it is now also starting to deepen and layer with concentrated black fruits balanced by linen-textured tannins slowing the progress of the fruit through the palate stretching out the flavours. First suggestions of tobacco and curling woodsmoke with a mouthwatering finish - so moreish. 1.5% Petit Verdot completes the blend. Just 36% of overall production. 02/21
Jeb Dunnuck: 97 Points
One of the wines of the vintage the 2008 Château Margaux is a beauty and has everything you could want from a wine. A huge nose of cassis Asian spices dried flowers and incense all soar from the glass and on the palate it?s medium to full-bodied and pure with ripe tannins and a great finish. A blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon 10% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot made from an incredibly strict selection (only 36% of the production made it into the top wine) this elegant regal incredibly classic Chateau Margaux is thrilling today but will drink well for another 20-30 years.
vVinous: 94 Points
"The 2008 Château Margaux has an attractive bouquet of mulberry red plum briary a hint of rose petal rather than its signature note of violets. It gains intensity with aeration but to my surprise it feels quite forward for a 10-year old First Growth. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin quite Pauillac in style thanks to that graphite seam that surfaces towards the finish. It is a precise classic Château Margaux that really delivers its intensity in the final quarter. I came away with the impression that it just does not quite slip from fourth to fifth gear." -Neal Martin
James Suckling: 94 Points
"This is so subtle and refined on the nose with amazing perfumes of rose petal blueberries and blackberries. Full but very tight and fresh with a lovely length that goes on and on. Starts off slowly with a solid core of fruit then grows denser and denser. This is shy at first needs at leat five years of bottle age. "
Wine Advocate: 93 Points
"It has an exuberant mineral-rich bouquet with stunning delineation that soars from the glass with blackberry limestone and cassis aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with filigree tannins. Great precision beautifully integrated oak with a seamless finish as fresh as a daisy. Although it is surpassed by the 2009 and 2010 this is still a very precise pretty Chateau Margaux. Tasted January 2012." -Neal Martin
