1982 Château Margaux

Community Tasting Notes (348) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  4/4/2024 - racerchris Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Opened to celebrate 3 recent birthdays, dad, wife, and old friend. Decanted. The cork broke and the bottom pushed back into the bottle making filtration a chore.
  Opened up in short time and held thru the last sip during dinner a a couple hours later.
  Awesome nose. Soft on the palate. Went very well with the grilled salmon and roasted fennel. My wife and dad loved it. My friend preferred the 2012 Rauzan-Segla I also opened. I was happy to drink either one.
  However, a profound bottle of 1982 Ch. Talbot from a couple years ago exceeds my experience with both bottles of the '82 Ch. Margaux I've had.

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  3/24/2024 - VINNICK Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Drank over a 24 hour period. Slow oxed all the way with cork back on after every glass and back in the cellar. This has one of the most beautiful noses I’ve ever experienced. Perfume of violets crème de cassis leather tobacco. The color is dark and brooding. Deep and concentrated yet regal with incredible elegance and balance. This is a wine that needs coaxing and not a pop and pour. Those who wait both in the cellar or upon opening are rewarded. The wine just keeps opening more and more and getting better and better hour after hour. Magnificent. A value relative to others of the same vintage and stature.

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  3/12/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This has reached a lovely plateau of maturity showing the sweetness of the vintage. Layered and elegant with very smooth tannins still present but fully resolved. The finish is deeply satisfying with mature nots of dark flowers, tobacco and violet spice. Just a lovely drink.

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  3/1/2024 - VINNICK Likes this wine: 98 Points

  A stellar bottle of wine out of a 375ml and absolutely lovely.

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  2/25/2024 - heythatslife Likes this wine: 99 Points

  In short, flirting with perfection. If I don't ever have wine that's better than this bottle, I'm OK with that.
  
  Decanted 30 minutes. The famed Margaux perfume is on display in its full glory, with a heady floral nose of roses and violets, as well as cassis, amarena cherries, cedar, tobacco, forest floor, and subtle spices. I could just sniff this forever. On the palate, supple, expansive, velvety and, unbelievably for a 42-year old wine, fresh. The fruit is riper than most Bordeaux of this generation yet at the same time it's impeccably balanced and graceful, and so completely harmonized with the acidic, mineralic and savory elements on the palate, that it just takes the wine to 11 on the scale of sheer visceral pleasure rather than detracting in any way. That a wine with 12% ABV has so much packed into it is almost black magic. The finish carries on at length effortlessly without losing momentum, like a glider.
  
  There are some TNs here about the wine being over the hill, but in the case of this bottle, we agreed it just seems to have hit its peak and should have zero problem lasting another 10 years at a minimum, and probably 20 or 30 more.

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