Red · Margaux · Frankreich
Château Malescot St. Exupery Margaux (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 4,588 calibrated Vivino reviewers. Cohort: Red · Frankreich (147 wines).
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Is Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) a good wine?
Tasting profile
A premium, firm-structured Margaux bursting with big blackcurrant fruit and leather notes, showing youthful freshness alongside attractive aged complexity. Uber smooth and deep, it drinks beautifully now after a long decant and has the stuffing to develop further over the next decade-plus.
Synthesized from 4,588Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Wat een proefervaring! Dit is met recht eten en drinken tegelijk! Mooie verouderingstonen en nog meer dan voldoende fruit! Topwijn van een topjaar!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Notes of graphite, black currant liqueur, incense and camphor make for a complex and intensely penetrating set of aromatics. Dark ruby/purple, medium to full-bodied, with superb concentration and moderate tannin, this wine is a beauty of finesse and substance.
Château Malescot St. Exupery Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) is a French red made from Cabernet Sauvignon. The cheapest 750 ml listing found for it is $80.04, which puts the bottle in the $60–120 band. The vineyard region is Margaux, France.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 146 other reds from France, not against the corpus as a whole. 4,588 Vivino reviewers are calibrated for this bottle, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 4,674 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
- Cohort
- Red · Frankreich · 147 wines
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