Tasting Notes
Vinous 97
The 2009 Château Margaux is blessed with a stunning nose that delivers intense blackberry and cranberry scents, crushed rose petals and touches of slate. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin, taut and quite linear with an effortless and precise finish that is a pure joy. You have the sense of a Château Margaux that is only beginning to show what it can do. Brilliant. Tasted at BI Wines & Spirits’ Ten Year On tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2070
Robert Parker 98
The 2009 Chateau Margaux is deep garnet in color and features wonderfully fragrant minted cassis, lilacs, Black Forest cake and oolong tea scents with touches of pencil shavings and dusty soil. Medium to full-bodied, it has a firm, grainy frame with lovely freshness lifting the perfumed fruit to a very long, mineral-laced finish.
Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050
JancisRobinson.com 20/20
Tasted blind. Dark lustrous crimson. Spicy note and very ripe fruit with some leafiness. Thick and sweet ” very rich and fat. Very dramatic. Group average placed this second favourite of the 2009s.
Anticipated maturity: 2020-2055