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2020 Chateau Margaux Premier Cru Classe, Margaux
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Start Your Wine Collection with 2020 Chateau Margaux Premier Cru Classe, Margaux
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11.6% of All Producers of Fine Wine
1st GrowthThe highest ranking for Bordeaux wine
0.7% of Fine Wine Producers in Region
Top VintageBehold! One of the finest vintages of this wine ever made.
61.1% of Vinovest Wines
100-Point WineHello, perfection. This wine earned a 100-point rating from critics.
6.9% of All Fine WineWhy We're Buying
For many wineries, a single 100-point wine is a lifetime achievement. At Château Margaux, it’s commonplace. The 2020 vintage alone has notched multiple perfect ratings. Wine critic Lisa Perotti-Brown captured the magic of this living legend in her review, writing, “the grand vin of Chateau Margaux is an absolute standout among my tastings of the wines of Médoc…The quality of the tannins and the layers are phenomenal, but it is the freshness that is truly mind-blowing.” The 2020 Chateau Margaux features all the hallmarks of a classic Margaux. It’s extremely refined with superb length and intensity. It’s aromatically captivating with a cornucopia of black fruits, Black Forest cake, tobacco, iron, cloves, and violets. It also has purity that would put a church choir to shame. What makes 2020 Chateau Margaux even more remarkable is how approachable it is in youth. But, for savvy investors, you’re best off storing this beauty for at least a decade. The Final Sip: 2020 Chateau Margaux checks all the boxes of a perfect wine for investors and connoisseurs alike.
Critics Scores
Jeb Dunnuck
The 2020 Château Margaux is a more concentrated, dense wine that has the vintage's massive dry extract paired with more moderate alcohol levels and building tannins. Blackcurrants, sandalwood, tobacco leaf, and graphite give way to a full-bodied, rich, powerful Château Margaux that's flawlessly balanced, has a stacked mid-palate, and a great finish. It's one for the ages, though, and don't expect much up-front appeal. It almost reminds me of the 1996, yet with slightly more density. It's a quintessential beauty that will be just about immortal.
James Suckling
So floral and perfumed with blackcurrants, blackberries and some asphalt. Full-bodied with super, fine tannins. Extremely refined with great length and intensity. The wonderful combination of refinement and power is already evident. Superb finish. Another great Margaux.
Vinous
Much like the Deuxième Vin, the 2020 Château Margaux has a discreet nose; it is not interested in fireworks or in dazzling the taster. At first unassuming, it unfolds with black cherries, blueberry and signature crushed violet aromas, all delivered with the delineation and purity expected from an estate of this standing. Looking deeper, one finds touches of potpourri and India ink. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannins and crisp acidity, perhaps more noticeable on the 2020 compared to the previous two vintages. This Margaux is surfeit with tension and coiled-up, nascent energy, then it tightens up toward a linear finish that strangely recalls a Pauillac, thanks to a subtle graphite note that lingers on the saline aftertaste. This is a classically styled Château Margaux that will gain weight and depth during its élevage. Cerebral and sophisticated, and one of the wines of the Left Bank in 2020.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Displaying an opaque purple-black color, it needs a lot of air, time and patience to coax out the youthfully reticent nose of blueberry preserves, blackcurrant pastilles and Black Forest cake, followed by suggestions of lavender, clove oil, iron ore and menthol with wafts of star anise and candied violets. The medium to full-bodied palate is wonderfully opulent, featuring tightly wound yet beautifully pure layers of black fruits and earthy nuances within a solid structure of firm yet velvety tannins and exhilarating freshness, finishing with very long-lingering earth and mineral notes. Another stunning expression of the vintage by Philippe Bascaules and his team—bravo!
Decanter
A brilliant Margaux; one that takes a sigh and then releases the huge floral, eucalyptus and crushed mint whoosh that comes in waves though the palate. You get the concentration of the vintage in an entirely positive light, with a suave softness to the tannins that makes it stand head and shoulders above many others. Plenty in common with the 1996 vintage - the knitted down tannins, the completeness, the juicy blackcurrant purity and acidity on the finish, and the certainty of long ageing. Real clarity of flavour. Alcohol level is lower than both the 2018 and 2019, but tannins and anthocyanins are at the same level as in 2018. 36 of overall harvest, and 1 Petit Verdot completes the blend.