Three hour double decant. Deep dark magenta color. Black cherry, plum, mushroom, and huckleberry. Smooth, dry palate. Firm, lower intensity tannins on the medium long+ finish.
28 hecatres so one of the smallest classified growths. 120,000 bottles of first wine. and 70% first wine and is the main thing they do. 2022 they did 89% first wine. A no-no wine. So no yeasting, racking, etc.. Battonage 2 - 3 times a week. 60 - 80% new barrels. 12 - 14 months aging. Age each plot and then blend it. No filtering so more like 12 months. Still driect and tight to it.
Deep dark reddish-purple garnet in color. Full, forward & attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis & plums with earthy/dusty & herbal overtones, floral notes, spices, leather, coffee, minerals, cocoa, smoky & a touch of oak/vanilla in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, plush, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, blueberries & plums with herbs, minerals, spices & oak/vanilla. Lingering finish. Drinks well at present with decanting & extended airing but will develop further with additional aging at which time it may merit a higher score (93+).
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Splash decanted at a restaurant. Lovely Margaux aromatics of red and blue fruits. Palate was dense and concentrated with fine tannins—only showing some austerity on the back end. Lovely wine, seemed to control the ripe vintage well.
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Very closed off out of the bottle but when it opens up there is the first hit of french oak pencil shavings aromas followed by figs, dried fruit, cassis. Good start but slightly hallow in mid palate and builds to med strong finish mostly by the oak. A medium length afterwards. Great mouthfeel and does open up beautifully over time.
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We had a strange experience with this wine that started great on day 1 but the wine deteriorated after that, causing me to wonder about its ageing potential but this is possibly due to my error with using the Coravin for the first time.
Nose (day 1): fantastic nose, very winning, perfume, violet, intoxicating heavy perfume like pheromones, plums, preserved sugary brandied fruit, powdered sugar, confectioner’s sugar, caramelized apple, rose water, toffee. No Bordeaux funk. Getting sweeter and sweeter as it opens. With about an hour it’s become very very ripe. I love the nose, don’t disappoint me! With time the Bordeaux funk arrives along with leather, pepper. Brandied plums, prunes, blueberries, cassis.
Palate: I love this. Decadent. It’s like having port. Highly glucose-sweet. No drying or astringent notes at all. Like doing drugs. Flavors are plums, prunes, dark cherries, confectionary sweetness. Heavenly and calming, contemplative, all the cells in my body relax, such a feminine soft mouthfeel, mouthwatering, rose water, pure water, cherries. Multilayered and complex. So refined and balanced. Arias and nectar. A little bit of pencil lead but it works well. Dominant notes are cherries, blues berries and cassis. This is the most heavy of the three (2010, 2015, 2018) and a little too flabby, perhaps overripe. The structure on this is not as good as the 2015 and 2010. Perhaps less potential for growth. There is a flabbiness here.
Finish: medium finish. Smells and tastes like port.
Conclusion: will have to try another bottle of this. In the initial blind taste it scored very high (94-95) then fell to 91 on later days possibly due to Coravin user error. Will order another bottle to re-taste and update accordingly.
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TN’s based on half bottle on day two. Slow ox stored in the cellar.
Dark garnet ruby halo. Powerful bite from tannins. Ripe baked dark cherry tart on the pallet. This is going to need a number of years to come together. Patience more than ox is needed.
Aerated into glass as we were impatient and thus short on time! Poured a dark purple ruby in glass with medium heft and body. On the nose, I keep picking up strawberries and floral notes. On the palette it has a dry, tannic feel but not overly so. Oak is well integrated in this effort. Balanced and refined, but yet still with a lush mouthfeel.
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Yet another mighty fine Malescot although I had doubts about it at first as it started out seriously tattooed by the caramelly, charred-firewood oak. But it did integrate with some airtime and wound up decently within the norms of standard Bordeaux cedar, and ultimately wasn't much of an issue. It's still of a piece with what Malescot's been for at least the last few years - a deep, dark, black-fruited wine, packed with tongue-staining fruit, drying tannin, and gravelly sensations, not for those seeking any sort of subtlety or understatement but also, somehow, basically hewing to normal parameters in form and structure, no flab or exaggerated proportions.
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This was decanted for 4 hrs and tasted over 3 days. Very red-fruited mostly strawberry liqueur and raspberry, combined with a tobacco/spice note, alcohol a little bit protruding. This got smoother on days 2 and 3 (as expected), and was drinking nicely, but I think the 2014 is better. I tend to prefer dark-fruited Bordeaux, so if you like yours more on the Southern Rhone/Burgundian side of things fruit-wise, add a few points to my score ...
Much better showing this time. Dark ruby/purple, nose of sweet cassis and full body. Red and black fruits on the long tannic finish. Should turn out nicely in a few years.
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Blackberry, mulberry, notes of gravel; rich, luxurious, long, intense fruits; dense with strong tannins but still beautifully drinkable at this early stage; quite lovely and surely yet better things to come
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Early, but I think it opened up just enough to get a sense of it. It drives down main street Margaux: some combination of tobacco, cassis, and pomegranate, with sweet oak spice thrown in there, too. (I second Grapescott's notes about the overall impression leaning toward red fruit rather than black.) Not sure how much depth or complexity it will ultimately develop, but the fundamentals are here.
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The nose has sweetness and shows black currant,black cherry,dark chocolate,licorice,graphite and some floral scents.On the palate,delectable fruit,but it is cloaked in a wall of very harsh tannins.Short finish,and in general it lacks depth and excitement.I don't see a great future here.Disappointing.
Tasted twice, over several days. As per my go-to routine for sampling such young BDX, ~1/2 bottle was Coravin-decanted into a 16oz amber bottle ~4h before sampling on day 1. I followed up on it again ~24h later. Tasted alongside Langoa Barton, Gruaud Larose and Grand-Puy-Lacoste. Has a rich, almost meaty nose, laced with cassis, violets, crushed rocks and a hint of cigar smoke. Given the burly, black-fruited nose, this is deceptively pretty and red-fruited on the palate, showing red currant, pomegranate and wineberry (wild raspberries that could be found where I grew up in the Northeast). There is a lovely tartness to balance the abundant fruit, and with 30+ hrs of air/time, the velvety tannins just melt away on the long minerally finish. This, along with the GPL, are my favorites in this group.
Decanted half a 375 for 3 hours at this point, without air a month ago (PnP) at the chateau it was great, now it’s night night time. Do not open but wow this has a ton of potential. Half the bottle back in the real fridge to see how it changes. Not expecting much as this bad boy needs time but I am super excited for what this will become. Nite nite until 2026 but of course I will check in before that.
Will update if the other half has any tangible movement.
Update 24 hours later (half of a 375 bottle) in the cellar. Wine has settled down considerably (almost too much but hey one glass 24 hours at 55 degrees) allowing a more even keel experience. Great lift, cranberries, sour blackberries, black and red currants, cherries, gravel, damp earth and a bit of oak and a nice long finish. Load of potential lurking behind what was an almost impenetrable frame. 92/93
2021 Bordeaux Tasting Trip; 7/12/2021-7/16/2021 (Bordeaux): A tasting in Bordeaux of 71 wines, some of the best I have ever had and others umm well disappointing. If you read the Tasting story (and my grading history) I think it will do a much better job putting this in perspective.
This was tasted at the chateau with the 2011. First and foremost I cannot thank Lea enough for her time, honesty transparency and passion she shared with us throughout. I am a big fan of MSE now that I know a lot more in-depth about the wine based on a great 2011 and this really well done 2018, I am an auto buyer going forward. Further, this drinks above its price point.
While the wine is not yet in its prime drinking window, there is no question this is a great wine and while should be cellared, is already drinking wonderfully. Great complexity and depth for a future standout wine- I am buying more later this week. Very very good and look forward to drinking again sooner rathe than later.
Vinous Bordeaux Series One of most improved estates in Margaux with more refinement.
Big bold rich and dense black fruited powerhouse aromas. Pretty dense sweet black raspberry intensity that really packs a awesome punch. Really good flavors and sensual textured. Great purity and concentration. Love the texture here. Very impressive. Wow. Sweet broad tannins that are quite potent yet manage to stay tamed by the delicious fruit which is really big dark fruit.
While quite young already highly drinkable, yet real potential.
Nose: Cool blue fruits, light smoldering tobacco, charcoal, light lilac.
Mouth: Gorgeous, lightly sappy flavors of cassis, crushed black plum, and blueberry sauce glide through on a glistening sheen, showing good focus as they welcome in threads of bay leaf, blue flower, and iron that linger softly ahead of a mineral tinge on the finish. Fruit is light but resonant at the end, fading slowly with the iron.
Overall: Wonderfully complex and svelte throughout, this is also thoroughly dynamic, showing different flavors that arc back and forth across the palate, weaving in the different tertiary notes throughout. Approachable now, but worth waiting for some knit as well. Drink 2022 -2035.
Almost opaque in color, this full-bodied, lusciously textured, round, rich gem provides layers of ripe, sweet, dark red fruits, licorice, espresso, plums and cherries . The combination of velvety tannins, intensity and a plush finish hits the spot. If you can keep your hands off it for a decade or so, this is going to be an outstanding wine to enjoy for the following 2 decades after that.
Powerful and explosive in the glass, and yet polished, the 2018 is impressive. Graphite, smoke, gravel, spice and leather infuse a potent, full-bodied Margaux with good structure. Even so the Malescot shows some supple tannins and a softer feel than is usually the case.
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Dark, almost inky in color, the wine offers intensity, richness, velvet textures and purity of fruit. The array of black, deep red and nearly blue fruit with smoke, flowers, earth, espresso and licorice leaves a marked impression on the nose, on the palate and in the long, silky, polished finish. 95-97 Pts
2/11/2024 - AGELVIS Likes this wine: 93 Points
Three hour double decant. Deep dark magenta color. Black cherry, plum, mushroom, and huckleberry. Smooth, dry palate. Firm, lower intensity tannins on the medium long+ finish.
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1/30/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
28 hecatres so one of the smallest classified growths. 120,000 bottles of first wine. and 70% first wine and is the main thing they do. 2022 they did 89% first wine. A no-no wine. So no yeasting, racking, etc.. Battonage 2 - 3 times a week. 60 - 80% new barrels. 12 - 14 months aging. Age each plot and then blend it. No filtering so more like 12 months. Still driect and tight to it.
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9/17/2023 - watcheslover Likes this wine: 94 Points
mini-vertical by Malescot Saint Exupéry, 3 days ago
2021 not tasted.
1) 2019 97/100
2) 2020 95/100
3) 2022 (sample) 94-95/100
4) 2016, 2018 94/100
6) 2015 93/100
7) 2017 92
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7/1/2023 - Brendel Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful, lovely wine, at a very good price. Continues to impress us. Tasting notes as before.
Tasted alongside a 2018 Ch D’Issan and this was much better. Just more elegant and perfumed.
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12/26/2022 - trumpet60201 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nice violet and fine oak on the nose. Finish has nice persistency. The 14.5% alc is too high for my taste, it it was still a very enjoyable wine.
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12/11/2022 - marcstevens45 wrote: 92 Points
Really delicious but will benefit from a few years of aging. Probably don't touch for at least 5 years.
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10/17/2022 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep dark reddish-purple garnet in color. Full, forward & attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis & plums with earthy/dusty & herbal overtones, floral notes, spices, leather, coffee, minerals, cocoa, smoky & a touch of oak/vanilla in the background. Medium bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, plush, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, blueberries & plums with herbs, minerals, spices & oak/vanilla. Lingering finish. Drinks well at present with decanting & extended airing but will develop further with additional aging at which time it may merit a higher score (93+).
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9/4/2022 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Splash decanted at a restaurant. Lovely Margaux aromatics of red and blue fruits. Palate was dense and concentrated with fine tannins—only showing some austerity on the back end. Lovely wine, seemed to control the ripe vintage well.
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6/24/2022 - JRose81 wrote: 91 Points
Very closed off out of the bottle but when it opens up there is the first hit of french oak pencil shavings aromas followed by figs, dried fruit, cassis. Good start but slightly hallow in mid palate and builds to med strong finish mostly by the oak. A medium length afterwards. Great mouthfeel and does open up beautifully over time.
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5/23/2022 - Brendel Likes this wine: 94 Points
We had a strange experience with this wine that started great on day 1 but the wine deteriorated after that, causing me to wonder about its ageing potential but this is possibly due to my error with using the Coravin for the first time.
Nose (day 1): fantastic nose, very winning, perfume, violet, intoxicating heavy perfume like pheromones, plums, preserved sugary brandied fruit, powdered sugar, confectioner’s sugar, caramelized apple, rose water, toffee. No Bordeaux funk. Getting sweeter and sweeter as it opens. With about an hour it’s become very very ripe. I love the nose, don’t disappoint me! With time the Bordeaux funk arrives along with leather, pepper. Brandied plums, prunes, blueberries, cassis.
Palate: I love this. Decadent. It’s like having port. Highly glucose-sweet. No drying or astringent notes at all. Like doing drugs. Flavors are plums, prunes, dark cherries, confectionary sweetness. Heavenly and calming, contemplative, all the cells in my body relax, such a feminine soft mouthfeel, mouthwatering, rose water, pure water, cherries. Multilayered and complex. So refined and balanced. Arias and nectar. A little bit of pencil lead but it works well. Dominant notes are cherries, blues berries and cassis. This is the most heavy of the three (2010, 2015, 2018) and a little too flabby, perhaps overripe. The structure on this is not as good as the 2015 and 2010. Perhaps less potential for growth. There is a flabbiness here.
Finish: medium finish. Smells and tastes like port.
Conclusion: will have to try another bottle of this. In the initial blind taste it scored very high (94-95) then fell to 91 on later days possibly due to Coravin user error. Will order another bottle to re-taste and update accordingly.
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4/9/2022 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 93 Points
TN’s based on half bottle on day two. Slow ox stored in the cellar.
Dark garnet ruby halo. Powerful bite from tannins. Ripe baked dark cherry tart on the pallet. This is going to need a number of years to come together. Patience more than ox is needed.
Hold
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4/8/2022 - nrjessup Likes this wine: 92 Points
Aerated into glass as we were impatient and thus short on time! Poured a dark purple ruby in glass with medium heft and body. On the nose, I keep picking up strawberries and floral notes. On the palette it has a dry, tannic feel but not overly so. Oak is well integrated in this effort. Balanced and refined, but yet still with a lush mouthfeel.
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3/23/2022 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points
Yet another mighty fine Malescot although I had doubts about it at first as it started out seriously tattooed by the caramelly, charred-firewood oak. But it did integrate with some airtime and wound up decently within the norms of standard Bordeaux cedar, and ultimately wasn't much of an issue. It's still of a piece with what Malescot's been for at least the last few years - a deep, dark, black-fruited wine, packed with tongue-staining fruit, drying tannin, and gravelly sensations, not for those seeking any sort of subtlety or understatement but also, somehow, basically hewing to normal parameters in form and structure, no flab or exaggerated proportions.
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3/4/2022 - Everything Ahead wrote: 91 Points
This was decanted for 4 hrs and tasted over 3 days. Very red-fruited mostly strawberry liqueur and raspberry, combined with a tobacco/spice note, alcohol a little bit protruding. This got smoother on days 2 and 3 (as expected), and was drinking nicely, but I think the 2014 is better. I tend to prefer dark-fruited Bordeaux, so if you like yours more on the Southern Rhone/Burgundian side of things fruit-wise, add a few points to my score ...
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12/29/2021 - WDK Likes this wine: 94 Points
Much better showing this time. Dark ruby/purple, nose of sweet cassis and full body. Red and black fruits on the long tannic finish. Should turn out nicely in a few years.
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12/19/2021 - wineappreciation wrote: 92 Points
Blackberry, mulberry, notes of gravel; rich, luxurious, long, intense fruits; dense with strong tannins but still beautifully drinkable at this early stage; quite lovely and surely yet better things to come
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12/13/2021 - Stephan O wrote: 91 Points
Early, but I think it opened up just enough to get a sense of it. It drives down main street Margaux: some combination of tobacco, cassis, and pomegranate, with sweet oak spice thrown in there, too. (I second Grapescott's notes about the overall impression leaning toward red fruit rather than black.) Not sure how much depth or complexity it will ultimately develop, but the fundamentals are here.
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12/2/2021 - WDK wrote:
Not showing much today.
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11/25/2021 - Orange Tsian wrote: 92 Points
香气精巧饱满，在黑樱桃、黑醋栗和黑莓之中还有着一些树莓和覆盆子的红果味，花香比较漂浮，中后段多甘草、木质以及丁香等香料粉，在鼻腔慢慢地柔和舒展着。入口结构中上，集中度还不错，单宁多，虽然还有些粗糙，但是只带来收敛感，不会太紧缩。果味已经比较圆润，黑醋栗等黑果之中带有红樱桃之类的红果味，组合起来虽然不是太结实，但有足够的精巧感，温柔地触碰口腔，好像细细的绒布一样，还有汁水感。中后段有些揉碎了的花瓣、烟草、甘草和香草奶泡，浸泡在整体之中，构成纹路。92/100
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10/30/2021 - valedeniro wrote: 91 Points
The nose has sweetness and shows black currant,black cherry,dark chocolate,licorice,graphite and some floral scents.On the palate,delectable fruit,but it is cloaked in a wall of very harsh tannins.Short finish,and in general it lacks depth and excitement.I don't see a great future here.Disappointing.
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9/26/2021 - GrapeScott wrote: 94 Points
Tasted twice, over several days. As per my go-to routine for sampling such young BDX, ~1/2 bottle was Coravin-decanted into a 16oz amber bottle ~4h before sampling on day 1. I followed up on it again ~24h later. Tasted alongside Langoa Barton, Gruaud Larose and Grand-Puy-Lacoste. Has a rich, almost meaty nose, laced with cassis, violets, crushed rocks and a hint of cigar smoke. Given the burly, black-fruited nose, this is deceptively pretty and red-fruited on the palate, showing red currant, pomegranate and wineberry (wild raspberries that could be found where I grew up in the Northeast). There is a lovely tartness to balance the abundant fruit, and with 30+ hrs of air/time, the velvety tannins just melt away on the long minerally finish. This, along with the GPL, are my favorites in this group.
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9/12/2021 - gjolbo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lots of black fruit, very intense. But too young the wood is not yet well integrated. Give it 5 to 10 years, at this will be a major wine
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8/24/2021 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted half a 375 for 3 hours at this point, without air a month ago (PnP) at the chateau it was great, now it’s night night time. Do not open but wow this has a ton of potential. Half the bottle back in the real fridge to see how it changes. Not expecting much as this bad boy needs time but I am super excited for what this will become. Nite nite until 2026 but of course I will check in before that.
Will update if the other half has any tangible movement.
Update 24 hours later (half of a 375 bottle) in the cellar. Wine has settled down considerably (almost too much but hey one glass 24 hours at 55 degrees) allowing a more even keel experience. Great lift, cranberries, sour blackberries, black and red currants, cherries, gravel, damp earth and a bit of oak and a nice long finish. Load of potential lurking behind what was an almost impenetrable frame. 92/93
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7/14/2021 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 94 Points
2021 Bordeaux Tasting Trip; 7/12/2021-7/16/2021 (Bordeaux): A tasting in Bordeaux of 71 wines, some of the best I have ever had and others umm well disappointing. If you read the Tasting story (and my grading history) I think it will do a much better job putting this in perspective.
This was tasted at the chateau with the 2011. First and foremost I cannot thank Lea enough for her time, honesty transparency and passion she shared with us throughout. I am a big fan of MSE now that I know a lot more in-depth about the wine based on a great 2011 and this really well done 2018, I am an auto buyer going forward. Further, this drinks above its price point.
While the wine is not yet in its prime drinking window, there is no question this is a great wine and while should be cellared, is already drinking wonderfully. Great complexity and depth for a future standout wine- I am buying more later this week. Very very good and look forward to drinking again sooner rathe than later.
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7/11/2021 - KenK Likes this wine: 94 Points
Vinous Bordeaux Series
One of most improved estates in Margaux with more refinement.
Big bold rich and dense black fruited powerhouse aromas.
Pretty dense sweet black raspberry intensity that really packs a awesome punch. Really good flavors and sensual textured. Great purity and concentration. Love the texture here. Very impressive. Wow.
Sweet broad tannins that are quite potent yet manage to stay tamed by the delicious fruit which is really big dark fruit.
While quite young already highly drinkable, yet real potential.
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3/26/2021 - RoyaltyCoins wrote: 96 Points
Medium ruby,
Nose: Cool blue fruits, light smoldering tobacco, charcoal, light lilac.
Mouth: Gorgeous, lightly sappy flavors of cassis, crushed black plum, and blueberry sauce glide through on a glistening sheen, showing good focus as they welcome in threads of bay leaf, blue flower, and iron that linger softly ahead of a mineral tinge on the finish. Fruit is light but resonant at the end, fading slowly with the iron.
Overall: Wonderfully complex and svelte throughout, this is also thoroughly dynamic, showing different flavors that arc back and forth across the palate, weaving in the different tertiary notes throughout. Approachable now, but worth waiting for some knit as well. Drink 2022 -2035.
96.
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3/9/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
Almost opaque in color, this full-bodied, lusciously textured, round, rich gem provides layers of ripe, sweet, dark red fruits, licorice, espresso, plums and cherries . The combination of velvety tannins, intensity and a plush finish hits the spot. If you can keep your hands off it for a decade or so, this is going to be an outstanding wine to enjoy for the following 2 decades after that.
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1/8/2020 - IMR Likes this wine: 96 Points
Powerful and explosive in the glass, and yet polished, the 2018 is impressive. Graphite, smoke, gravel, spice and leather infuse a potent, full-bodied Margaux with good structure. Even so the Malescot shows some supple tannins and a softer feel than is usually the case.
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4/19/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Dark, almost inky in color, the wine offers intensity, richness, velvet textures and purity of fruit. The array of black, deep red and nearly blue fruit with smoke, flowers, earth, espresso and licorice leaves a marked impression on the nose, on the palate and in the long, silky, polished finish. 95-97 Pts
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