2004 Chateau Margaux Premier Cru Classe, Margaux 1x750ml

Vinous 95

The 2004 Chateau Margaux is a vintage that I tasted earlier this year at the chateau, although here it is a rare chance to savor the wine from neck to punt. What a joy. It is certainly open for business on the nose, leaning towards red rather than black f [Neal Martin, 18/10/2024]

Anticipated maturity: 2024-2048

Robert Parker 94

The 2004 Chateau Margaux has always been a promising wine and here, served blind against the First Growths, it finally proved that patience is necessary when it comes to such wines. It has an exquisite bouquet with brilliant delineation, scents of redcurrant, raspberry coulis, cold stone (almost flint-like) with pencil-lead and cedar lending it a Pauillac-like sense of aristocratic flair. The palate is extremely well balanced with a supple opening, nigh perfect acidity with a surprisingly citric undercurrent that lends so much freshness and tension. While it does not have the weight and power of say, 2000, 2005 or 2009, it cruises along with utmost harmony and you become smitten by its charms – something that is perhaps in short supply among the First Growths in this vintage. This is excellent. Tasted September 2016. [Neal Martin, 28/09/2017]

Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050