2024, Château Giscours, MARGAUX, 3ème Grand Cru ClasséLast year EP $89. 00 Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. 3rd Growth. This is a classic Margaux vineyard (95 hectares) that is under Dutch ownership and management. The 2024 is 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot. The 2024 Giscours is impressive. Elegant and sleek, with fine balance, Giscours is all class. The bouquet alone is so enticing. Small red berry fruit, spice, tobacco,

and I find this Charmes-Chambertin has plenty of character and sapidity

Full-bodied and muscular

The 2022 Echo de Lynch Bages is a powerhouse

from these old vines

Very nicely poised with a burst of dark fruit energy

75% whole bunches

a brightness and liveliness straight away

There is impressive concentration and an abundance of sappy dry extract that coats the palate of the big-bodied flavours as well as buffers the firm tannic spine supporting the youthfully austere and beautifully long finish that also displays a touch of warmth

Last picked

and tar plus a touch of cedar in the background

This delivers careful balance

almost reluctantly unfurling with scents of blackberry