2008 chateau margaux premier cru classe, margaux
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Why We're Buying
Château Margaux belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of Bordeaux red wines. It is one of the five first-growth wine estates and touts the second-highest prices in Margaux. How much are people willing to spend? Someone once paid $225,000 for Château Margaux 1787 that previously belonged to former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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Wine Enthusiast
Definite richness alongside classic elegance. It’s a stylish wine, the fruit integrated into a beautiful structure. It’s not all refinement, because there is also a weight to the black plum skin and dark berry character. A wine that will age over many decades.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
This is a stunning Chateau Margaux, made in a sexy, up-front, elegant style, with deep creme de cassis fruit intermixed with spring flowers, a solid inner core of richness and depth, but again, very sweet tannins as well as striking minerality and elegance. One of the most seductive Chateau Margauxs given its recent bottling, this blend of 87 Cabernet Sauvignon, 10 Merlot, and the rest tiny quantities of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot should drink beautifully for the next 25-30 years. Remarkably, a mere 36 of the entire production was selected for the 2008 Chateau Margaux.
Wine Spectator
Shows a lightly sinewy edge, with coiled notes of damson plum, red currant preserves, rooibos tea, singed balsa wood and iron, lacking the vintage's typical crisp edge. The fine-grained finish is approachable already, but this will age gracefully and should develop a more perfumed than rich profile.