Community Tasting Notes 17

• MattMauldin Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 16, 2024 - Double decanted, 3 hours. Very bright, full ruby color, mostly opaque. Black currant and blackberry aromas, with emerging iron, licorice, anise, leather, lavender and rosemary. More black fruit on the attack, elegant ripeness, with well-integrated notes of crushed stone, nutmeg, new leather, tobacco, tea and fennel. Medium to full on the palate, refined and stately, fleshy and expansive, with balanced medium acid and thick tannins, full and plush. Finishes long with black fruit zest and anise. Angular and tight at first, really blossoming with air, no shame in this early opening. Excellent.

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• NateR Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 20, 2024 - Bordeaux Wine Tasting: Graphite nose. Fresh on the palate, with good body, moderate tannins, and well balanced. Slightly fruity, with blueberry and some other more general ripe fruit notes.

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• forceberry wrote: 92 points

  September 9, 2023 - A blend of biodynamically farmed Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (35%), Cabernet Franc (5%) and Petit Verdot (5%). Aged for 18 months in new (65%) and two-year-old (35%) barriques. 14,5% alcohol and 6,1 g/l acidity.
  
  Dense, youthful and completely opaque blackish-red color. The brooding nose feels somewhat sweet-toned and a bit restrained but also quite complex and fine-tuned with intermingling aromas of ripe dark berries and fresh blackcurrants, some exotic spices, a little bit of juicy dark plum, light woody notes of pencil shavings, toasty hints of coffee grounds and oak spice and a lovely floral touch of elderflowers and violets. The wine feels ripe, dense and powerful yet dry and firm on the palate with a full body and intense, youthful flavors of fresh dark plums and juicy blackcurrants, some woody notes of savory oak spice, a little bit of toasty coffee character, light gravelly mineral tones, a bittersweet hint of dark chocolate and a touch of alcohol warmth. The overall feel is pretty stern and broad-shouldered with the high acidity and still pretty assertive and grippy tannins. The high alcohol lends a little bit of warmth to the palate. The finish is dry, moderately tannic and a bit warm with a long, powerful aftertaste of fresh blackcurrants and tart dark plums, some woody notes of pencil shavings, a little bit of bittersweet dark chocolate, light sweeter nuances of ripe black cherries, a hint of crunchy red currant and a touch of stony minerality.
  
  A stern, structured and quite impressively built Margaux that seems to promise a lot more than what it is giving now. The wine is still very youthful with a noticeably fruit-forward - yet not primary - overall feel, but it also feels very tough and tightly-knit with quite a bit of unintegrated and somewhat awkward oak influence. Although the wine feels a tad too warm and oaky for my preference, I must admit that this wine is still a rather impressive effort. Since the wine didn't seem to open much over the course of the evening, I feel there is no point in opening any bottles in the immediate future. Most likely this wine will start to open up at the age of 10 years, but I feel this wine needs another ten to twenty years - maybe even more? - before it reaches its plateau of maturity. Maybe a bit pricey now at 70,01€, but most likely the wine will be more worth the price once it gets past its awkward adolescent phase.

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• rbs1 Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 1, 2023 - Great. But should have waited a few more years. Even after an hour in the decanter, the wine was still "shut tight".

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• chngpw Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 31, 2022 - Decanted for 2hrs. This was closed and tight on the nose with dominant aromas of sandalwood, tobacco, good barnyard funk. The fruit aromas were very reticent but had great purity. It was slightly more generous on the palate with notes of mulberry and blackberry, with substantial crushed granite and salinity. There was also large amounts of fine chalky tannin which would take some years to resolve. The searing acidity helps to round out the palate, and is a pleasant surprise considering the hot vintage. That said, this wine seems to be starting to shut down, would advise against opening now. Well made with finesse, needs long term cellaring to unlock its potential. Less generous and ready than the 2015, but has more elegance and restraint.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Château Marquis d'Alesme
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Margaux
• UPC Codes 0360905094881, 3550521813261, 721713850392

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• Pending Delivery 320 (11%)
• In Cellars 2,452 (83%)
• Consumed 175 (6%)

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