1975 Château Giscours

Community Tasting Notes (71) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  3/25/2024 - GrapeScott wrote: 93 Points

  This is perhaps the most compelling '75 Left Bank I've tried to date (besting Latour, among others). Like many Medoc wines from this vintage, there are savage tannins that overshadow the fruit, and this was giving very little on day 1, other than its stunning nose. But on day 2, this had transformed into a balanced and very enjoyable claret, with cassis and red berry fruit and an interesting nectarine note on the finish. Still rather primary considering its age, I think this still has decades of life ahead of it. This and the '66 remain benchmark wines for this estate in that era.

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  1/1/2024 - kevin h wrote: 90 Points

  Smell of my early childhood, rosehip syrup. There is still a whiff or cassis but it is in homeopathic quantities. Old Bordeaux fruit (40 years +) tends do go from cassis to rosehips to tea to chocolate if it avoids becoming oxidised along the way. Still plenty of fruit, tannins have gone though it is starting to dry out a bit. Nice aged sweetness to the fruit, healthy signs. A charming old Bordeaux.

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  5/31/2023 - Windacre in the Slope Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Coravin glass, really full of life, beautiful nose, vanilla spice and wet dog. Soft and elegant on the pallate, dry and chewy but also airy. Tobacco and leather finish. Fantastic old Bordeaux.

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  3/6/2023 - The Wine Monkeys Likes this wine: 87 Points

  My first impression was it may have been done for but it slowly opened up offering the typical nose of funk, tar, graphite and dark stewed fruit. Unless undrinkable, vintage wines are a unique experience and an education. This example was past it's prime (imho) albeit enjoyable enough.

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  8/13/2022 - Quinn05 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drank over 2 hours. Opened 8 hours in advance and served at approximately 16.5⁰C. Perfect neck level fill.
  
  Light red with very subtle bricking at the edge. There's a decent amount of fruit left for a 47 year old wine. The fruit is mostly red, cherries in particular. There's some cedar and a tiny bit of tobacco. The tannins are almost fully resolved and the finish is very good (20 seconds +). Even though 1975 is not an exceptional year for Bordeaux and it might be time to drink these up, this is a very good mature Margaux.

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