JS
90
James Suckling
RP
90
Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate
WE
90
Wine Enthusiast
WS
92
Wine Spectator
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Pavillon Rouge du Chateau Margaux 2003

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Product description

Chateau Margaux, a Premier Grand Cru Classe Bordeaux, is one of the most famous wines in the world. Care has been lavished on the property by a line of owners with an abiding concern for the reputation of the estate.

For more than five hundred years, season after season, generations of vineyard-workers, grapeharvesters, cellar-workers, coopers and many other craftsmen have all played a part in making Chateau Margaux what it is today: a wine with an incomparable personality, reflected in the elegant Palladian building which adorns its label.

The Pavillon Rouge 2003 is a monumental wine, richer in tannins than any Chateau Margaux produced over at least the last 40 years, until 2005 (which is even more concentrated!). This unusual power is happily balanced, as in the first wine, by a delicacy and smoothness, which almost manage to hide the impressive tannic structure.

92 Points - Wine Spectator

Aromas of blackberry and lightly toasted oak follow through to a full-bodied palate, with chewy tannins and a rich, fruity aftertaste of plum, berry and vanilla. 

90 Points - Wine Enthusiast

The second wine of Chateau Margaux is certainly as good as many crus bourgeois. This vintage is ripe and elegant. For fruit that is so ripe what is fascinating is the way the wine finishes with acidity and a great lift.

90 Points - James Suckling

Big, round, and juicy, with lots of plummy and chocolate character. Full and round, very yummy. 

90 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Much fresher and less evolved than I would expect a second wine to be from this vintage, it is a Margaux-like effort with a flowery character, good precision and freshness, red and black currant notes, and an attractive, medium-bodied, surprisingly concentrated mouthfeel. It is clearly one of the finest second wines made in this vintage.