Margaux 1945

"A magnificent wine. Nothing fragile and feminine about this '45, at least not in its early years. From the start, very deep in colour with a beautiful richness and intensity; and in the 1970s Latour-like massiveness and tanin. Its 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 tanins ameliorating, now soft and velvety. The climax of two Bordeaux Club dinners (at Caius, Cambridge, 1996, and at John Jenkins' Jacobean Childerley Hall, Oct 2000). A vivacious and fabulously fragrant bottle at the Sveass dinner and showing at its magnificent best at both of Wagner's Margaux tastings, in 1997 and 2000. Last tasted in Zurich, Nov 2000." (5* out of 5* ), Michael Broadbent MW

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Albany Vintners, - 01 January 2002