2005 Clos du Marquis, St Julien, Bordeaux
- Red
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Cabernet Sauvignon (50%), Merlot (37%), Cabernet Franc (12%), Petit Verdot (1%)
- Richard Hemming MW
- 16.5/20
- Antonio Galloni
- 91/100
- Robert Parker
- 91/100
- Jeb Dunnuck
- 92/100
- James Suckling
- 92/100
- Neal Martin
- 93/100
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Description
Clos du Marquis's grapes actually come from a separate area of vineyards (rather than younger or less successful vines at Léoville-Las Cases) surrounded on all sides by other Second Growths. This is made with much more Merlot (38%) than the Léoville-Las Cases and is very rich, with sweet, creamy, overripe raspberries and blackberries with leather overtones. It is a very precise wine within a beautifully integrated framework of new oak and classy tannins. This is a cracking Claret and one of the best value wines of the vintage.
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Critics reviews
88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc.
Ferrous and mineral on the nose, with fruit that seems decidedly staid on the palate. Lots of deposit too, incidentally. It's a good second wine, which shouldn't be hugely expensive, but probably is. Sigh.
Drink now
The 2005 Clos du Marquis is in a very attractive place today. Time has softened the tannins nicely, allowing the wine's radiant personality to really shine. Sweet tobacco, cedar, mint, dried flowers and dried cherry are all laced together in this expressive Saint-Julien. There is a bit of rusticity here, but all the elements are well balanced just the same.
Drink 2021 - 2030
The superb second wine, the 2005 Clos du Marquis, reflects the utter brilliance of the 2005 grand vin. It boasts an inky/ruby/purple color along with a sweet perfume of lead pencil, ripe cherries and black currants, and hints of earth and vanillin. Dense, chewy, fleshy, and full-bodied, this beauty will be drinkable in 3-4 years, and should keep for 15-20.
Drink 2011 - 2028
The 2005 Clos du Marquis is a rich, concentrated beauty that has ample ripe red and black fruits intermixed with notes of tobacco, scorched earth, and graphite. Rich, concentrated, and powerful, with terrific depth of fruit, it's showing some evolution and maturity today and is drinking spectacularly well, yet it has another 15 years of longevity.
Drink 2019 - 2034
Musty and mushroomy, with red fruit chasers on the nose and palate. Round and fruity, but still needs three years. Pull the cork in 2013.
The Clos du Marquis 2005 is evolving into a little beauty. It has an opulent, downright sexy bouquet with macerated dark cherries, briary, mint interlaced with candied orange peel that is beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with sturdy tannin cloaked in spicy red fruit, hints of red peppercorns and graphite infusing the finish that fans out gloriously. Yet everything remains tightly controlled thanks to the tight rein on acidity. Cannot afford Léoville Las-Cases? Then you know where to come.
Drink 2017 - 2035
About this wine
Saint-Julien
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