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1996 Château Giscours, Margaux, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
Ready - mature (Drink 2002 - 2023)
Jane Anson
94/100
Product: 19968005928

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1996 Château Giscours, Margaux, Bordeaux

Description

Ch. Giscours is one of the largest Margaux properties and now producing wine worthy of its Troisième Cru Classé status. Giscours was in a dire state when it was acquired by Nicholas Tari in 1952. He invested heavily and the quality of the wine improved beyond recognition. In 1995 he sold the property to Dutch businessman Eric Albada Jelgersma. Giscours produces richly aromatic wines that are surprisingly powerful on the palate, displaying ripe, black fruit with hints of cedar and new oak. This is a soft, medium-bodied, spicy, herbaceous Claret packed full of blackcurrant and cherry fruit.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 1996
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Ready - mature (2002 - 2023)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Giscours

Critics reviews

Jane Anson 94/100
Attractive sweetness at almost 30 years old, with Left Bank personality, brambled dark fruits, cocoa bean and espresso. The best of the 1990s, this retains firm tannins, melted but confident, and maybe the first in the series where you can feel the slide towards a more modern Giscours. Tertiary notes of tobacco and smoked campfire, but this is in no hurry to go anywhere. One of the first things the Albada family did was to up Cabernet Sauvignon in the vineyards, back to what it was in the 1970s, and although this was early days, the percentage in the blend was already being increased. 50% new oak. Pascal Ribereau-Gayon consultant.
Drink 2024 - 2040
Jane Anson, InsideBordeaux (Feb 2024)

About this wine

Margaux

Margaux

If Pauillac is the bastion of ‘traditional’ Red Bordeaux, Margaux represents its other facet in producing wines that are some of the region’s most sensual and alluring. The largest commune in the Médoc, it encompasses the communes of Cantenac, Soussans, Arsac and Labaude, in addition to the village of Margaux itself. Its finest examples are paragons of refinement and subtlety which have few parallels in Bordeaux.
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