1945 CHÂTEAU MARGAUX 1945

Margaux

Médoc - 1er Cru Classé

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90-94 / 100

Very good

1945 CHÂTEAU MARGAUX 1945

Margaux

Médoc - 1er Cru Classé

Condition Good

Stock : 0 bottle

2 268,00 € tax incl. 1 890,00 € tax excl.

Label Slightly damaged

Stock : 0 bottle

1 490,00 € tax incl. 1 241,67 € tax excl.

Avis d'expert

96 / 100

Franck Dubourdieu

(9-2007)

90 / 100

Wine Spectator

(11-1995) Still has firm tannins, but you can feel the delicacy and grace as it opens up and shows cedar, cigar box and chocolate-scented berry flavors. The tannins are scarcely more obtrusive here than with the other first growths.

5 / 5

Michael Broadbent

(11-2000) A magnificent wine. Nothing fragile and feminine about this '45. From the start, very deep in colour with a beautiful richness and intensity. The fragrance, the hallmark of Margaux, being variously described as ripe mulberry, crystallised violets, cedar cigar box, creamy - and always glorious. On the palate its initial tannins ameliorating, now soft and velvety.

Features Château informations

Features

Vintage	1945
Rating	90-94
Classification	Médoc - 1er Cru Classé
Region	Bordeaux
Appellation	Margaux
Colour	Red
Volume	0.75 l
Price	More than 300 €
Château	Margaux
Country	France

Château informations

Margaux

A privilege to bear the name of its appellation Margaux, for Chateau Margaux there is no doubt ample justification.

For several centuries this Premier Cru Classé has expressed the highest degree of quality of exceptional terroir patiently assembled by several generations of owners. Maintained and harvested exclusively by hand with extreme care, the 78 hectares of vines (75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot) derive their wealth deep in the soil which is clayey gravelly and particularly dense and thick. The fermentation in oak vats, after which the wine is strictly selected, follows 18 to 24 months in new oak barrels. A masterpiece among Bordeaux, the best according to some, Château Margaux reveals the delicate taste and opulence, depth and complexity, and exudes a rare elegance of rose, violet, black fruit, suspended by tight tannins that require patient aging before the wine fully expresses itself. The château also produces a second wine, Pavillon Rouge de Château Margaux, and a dry white wine, Pavillon Blanc de Château Margaux.

Best vintages of Château Margaux : 1900, 1928, 1953, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990

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