2004 Château Margaux

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  3/27/2024 - Purple Tooth wrote: 94 Points

  *A pristine bottle, from OWC stored in a serious collector's cellar since release. Perfect fill, perfect cork, weightless perfume of fresh earth, cream and raspberry with a cedar tinged tail. Just as expressive on the palate with firmness and fullness without being heavy, and just the right weight for the age. This is another testament to how great 2004 was in Margaux. All wines from this application from 04 have wow'ed me and given me another reason to stop reading and just drink with my eyes closed. At the beginning of a 10 to 15 year drinking window with definite headroom for more sprouting. drink or Hold_

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  3/23/2024 - Eric wrote:

  2004 Bordeaux at 20 years courtesy of Mark Taylor; 3/23/2024-3/24/2024 (Atlanta, GA): Wow, just brings a smile, layered, green, spicy, hint of tobacco, gorgeous, horse sweat, absolutely what draws me to Bordeaux, big, tannic, chewy, mineral. My #2 and the group #3. Guessed incorrectly as Ducru-Beaucaillou.

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: 91 Points

  Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
  
  TN: Medium expressive nose displaying ripe dark fruit, some herbal and earthy notes. On the palate a bit muted with some dark and red berries showing a bit, a nice earthiness underneath. The structure was ok, but the wine showed muted. 91pts. This was no comparison to a bottle a few years ago (rated 94pts) which showed much more open and layered. Maybe a bit of decanting would have helped here.

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  2/5/2024 - Baron Samedi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Still fruit-driven; elegant and well-balanced; medium body; some cedar and soft tannins.

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  2/2/2024 - super007 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Best of 2024; 1/1/2024-12/31/2024: Excellent. Wonderful velvet texture with nice and supple tannins that are wrapped around rich dark fruits - currant, cassis, blackberry.
  
  Wonderful - with some tertiary notes emerging but still nicely vibrant and enjoyable without the tightness or strength of a young Bordeaux. Tertiary notes were wood like - cedar perhaps.
  
  This is very well balanced.
  
  79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, 7% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc.

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