2005 Chateau Malescot St. Exupery 3eme Cru Classe, Margaux 1x750ml

Robert Parker 92

Tasted single blind at Southwold. I had a feeling this would improve after bottling. Tasted blind it has a very ripe blackberry and boysenberry nose with fresh prune scents coming through. The palate is ripe and succulent but lacking some definition. Good weight but rather forced into something. Coats the mouth on the finish, grippy, blackberry, nice oak, backward though and a little disjointed but I think this will mellow in time. Elegant and finely-tuned. Drink 2015-2030. Tasted January 2009. [Neal Martin, 01/01/2009]

Anticipated maturity: 2015-2030

Vinous 93

(13.8% natural alcohol) Bright ruby-red. Superripe berry and chocolate aromas, with a whiff of surmaturite Fat, sweet and large-scaled, offering extraordinary volume and an almost syrupy thickness leavened by surprisingly sound acidity. This saturates the entire mouth yet manages to avoid coming off as heavy. Finishes very long and sweet, with thoroughly integrated tannins. "The best vintage since 1961," notes Jean-Luc Zuger. "This is the kind of wine I like." He advises early drinkers to give this 2005 about four hours in a decanter. [Stephen Tanzer, 01/05/2008]