Margaux 瑪歌 2008 (OWC 12)

Description

By Jeb Dunnuck in 2019 (JD97)
One of the wines of the vintage, the 2008 Château Margaux is a beauty and has everything you could want from a wine. A huge nose of cassis, Asian spices, dried flowers, and incense all soar from the glass, and on the palate, it’s medium to full-bodied and pure, with ripe tannins and a great finish. A blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot made from an incredibly strict selection (only 36% of the production made it into the top wine), this elegant, regal, incredibly classic Chateau Margaux is thrilling today, but will drink well for another 20-30 years.

By Decanter in 2017 (JA96)
A generous, subtle, cassis-led wines with floral edging, the epitome of elegance. It manages to achieve persistency and length in a vintage where this wasn’t a given. This is what you are paying the money for; the ability to still deliver a combination of concentration and freshness, year on year. The layers here are more subtle than in some vintages perhaps, but they still perform that rather clever trick of slowly but surely building up over the course of the palate, one extra sleight of hand at a time, until you are fully enveloped. Drinking Window 2020 – 2038

By Robert Parker in 2011 (RP94)
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.