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2005 Château Margaux |
| Vintage | 2005 |  Label 1 of 37   | |
| Type | Red | ||
| Producer | Château Margaux (web) | ||
| Variety | Red Bordeaux Blend | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Bordeaux | ||
| SubRegion | Médoc | ||
| Appellation | Margaux |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 100 pts. and median of 100 pts. in 2 notes) | |
| Tasted by Paul D on 1/19/2009: Chateau Margaux Tasting - 1983-2006 - With Paul Pontallier (Merchant Taylors' Hall, Threadneedle Street, London EC2): Deeper, slightly brighter appearance, but certainly not totally opaque. Intense, complex, brooding dark fruit on the nose, vanilla, hints of toasty oak and smoke. Tremendous purity, elegance and length across the palate, seamless even at this young age. Dense, a mouthful but perfectly balanced. Very, very long. For the very long haul. ***** (3689 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 5/26/2008 & rated 100 points: I have waited until I got the chance to have this wine three times before writing my thoughts to make sure there was no fluke. This wine was opened for us for 24 hrs prior to drinking this time. The bouquet on this wine is from another world. It can be smelled from 20 ft away. As it decanted I was just amazed when we entered the cellar on the smell alone. The bouquet was oak lead pencil crushed raspberries and currants. Then came mocha chocolate and cherry. The tannins are clearly there but they are so wrapped up in the most amazing fruit I have ever tasted in any Margaux. The bouquet on this Margaux is the best ever as well and no 2005 wine has an aroma even close to this wine. This is as smooth as a wine can get. As with most historic Margaux's this one contains record level's of cabernet grape. 85% Cab and only 8 % Merlot. The midpalate had cedar oak spice box vanilla with blueberry and blackberry and a jammy raspberry. The constuction and backbone of this wine is massive and in perfect balance. The concentration of the fruit is among the greatest wines I have ever tasted. I felt that the first time I tasted it and now this wine for my palate is the only legend. It has become my favorite all time wine. It excellence is so good it must be tasted to be believed. If any bottle I own is worth thousands this is the bottle. I absolutely cant wait 10-20 yrs to see what this evolves into. The wine is so good that even this young one can enjoy it without any reservations. The acidity is perfect for serious cellaring. This one is easily a 100-125 yr candidate and the fruit is so dense and concentrated it will easily be there in that time frame. The finish on this wine is legendary and what everybody from 75 yrs from now will talk about. It has everything that one looks for in the best ever wine. This is a superlative effort that I doubt will occur but once every 100-120 yrs. The only Margaux's I know can hang with this one is the 1900 or the 1928 Margaux's and in my view neither one is better. I have tasted the two wines that Robert Parker has given 100 points to in 2005 and both are great in their own right but this wine far surpasses wither one of them by alot and its not close. I hope we get many tasters on this wine over the nest few yrs to see what the world thinks because giving this wine a 98 is complete injustice. This one get the first ever 100 plus ten rating from me. Its worth every penny and it is a must taste for any BDX lover. CellarTracker ratings wont let me leave any rating over 100 but this wine would be 110 on my scale. (6183 views) |
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| Producer website Their second wine is Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux 85% Cabernet Sauvignon 15% Merlot About red wine The variety Red Bordeaux Blend on CellarTracker implies any blend using any or all of the five traditional Bordeaux varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. As such, this is used worldwide, whether for wines from Bordeaux, Meritages from California and Canada, some Super-Tuscan wines etc. Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) | Simple Bordeaux primer Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines. As with a large part of the Bordeaux vineyards, vines first appeared in Margaux during the Gallo-Roman period. In 1705 a text mentions Château Margaux . But we have to wait for the end of the eighteenth century and the coming of the earliest techniques in aging for the concept of wines of high quality to develop. The confirmation of this was the famous 1855 classification which recognized 21 Crus Classés in the Margaux appellation. One hundred years later, the Viticultural Federation and the Margaux appellation of controlled origin were born. The appellation, which stretches out over five communes, is actually unique in the Médoc in that it is the only one to contain all the range of wines, as rich as they are vast, from First Great Cru Classé to the Fifths, not forgetting its famous Crus Bourgeois and its Crus Artisans. In Margaux there is a predominance of Garonne gravel on a central plateau of about 4 miles in length and one and a quarter wide. To the east-south-east, it overlooks the low lying land by the estuary. Its east side is marked by gentle, dry valleys and a succession of ridges.The layer of gravel in Margaux was spread out by a former Garonne in the early Quaternary. Rather large in size, it is mingled with shingle of average dimension and represents the finest ensemble of Günz gravel in the Haut-Médoc. It is on this ancient layer on a Tertiary terrace of limestone or clayey marl that the best Médoc crus lie. All the conditions for successful wine are present : a large amount of gravel and pebbles, poor soil which cannot retain water and deep rooted vines. It is customary to say that Margaux wines are the "most feminine" in the Médoc, thus stressing their delicacy, suppleness and their fruity, elegant aromas. This does not affect their great propensity for aging; just the opposite, for the relatively thin terroir imparts tannins which give them long life. The other characteristic of these wines which combine an elegant vitality, subtlety and consistency, is their diversity and personality. Over and above the flavour which is their "common denominator", they present an exceptional palette of bouquets, fruity flavours which show up differently from one château to another. Production conditions (Decree dated August 10 1954) In order to have the right to the Margaux appellation of controlled origin, red wines must: - come from the commune of Margaux, Cantenac, Soussans, Arsac and Labarde, "excluding the land which by the nature of its soil or because of its situation, is unfit to produce wine of this appellation". - satisfy precise production conditions: grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (45 hectolitres per hectare). |
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