Château Margaux 2007 [magnum]

Druvor

De första provningarna i vinframställningsprocessen bjöd på ett ögonblick av häpnad. Merlot-satserna är anmärkningsvärda: aromerna är fruktiga och mjuka, en rundhet i gommen och rik volym gjorde det möjligt att inkludera dem i en andel på 8% för det första vinet. Cabernet Sauvignon är alltid hjärtat och ramen för Château Margaux, och står för 89% av blandningen. Efter provsmakning var tanninerna perfekt mogna, vilket försäkrade oss om att vårt beslut att vänta några dagar till innan skörden var det rätta valet. Vinernas struktur är fortfarande en sällsynt kombination av kraft och förfining. Cabernet Franc (2%) och Petit Verdot (1%) avrundar blandningen för detta vin. Château Margaux står för 37 % av skörden. (oktober 2018)

Tasting note

'When we keep on talking about miracles, we can forget that nature is just capricious, especially in Bordeaux… But it is precisely the succession of vintages so different and so unpredictable that gives Bordeaux a little of its charm, a part of its interest and especially a genius like no other. We would have never thought at the end of August that the wines would have achieved such a level of quality. Ah, the famous indian summer that we always wish for and don't always get, but when it deigns to appear, sets our hearts alight with mad enthusiasm. 2007 is one of those vintages in which worry (sometimes anguish), hope, enthusiasm, doubt and serenity are all felt in succession. However, our most consistent reaction in the end this year was…..severity; particularly at the blending, where only 32% of the crop was selected to go into the first wine. This was the most rigorous selection ever performed. However, all our great parcels went into the blend, some of them at their best level of quality. The Cabernet, of course, so noble, such pedigree, both fine and dense at the same time, making up 87% of the blend, dominates, as usual, the personality of the Château Margaux 2007.The Merlot (11%) is more where it belongs this time, thanks to its full, tender and rich texture, along with the Cabernet Franc (2%) which clearly benefited from the conditions of the vintage. There was finally only a little late-ripening Cabernet, and of course our Petit Verdot, which was not able to join the leading group, to remind us of the painfully long ripening process this vintage… We can start drinking it now even if wisdom would have us wait several more years.'