Chateau Giscours 3eme Cru Classe, Margaux 2005

This is a beautiful Giscours with tension and finesse. It's full-bodied and shows plenty of berry and spice character, not to mention a long, silky-textured finish. It seduces you with each sip. Why wait?

Classic balance, still showing intensity and concentration, fragrant spices and truffle that walk the line of tertiary yet with decades ahead of it. Blackberry, blackcurrant, liqourice, cocoa bean, creamy texture as it opens, excellent quality, with fresh acidity underpinning the palate. Good stuff. Harvest September 22 to October 6, 50% new oak for ageing. Didier Forêt technical director and Jacques Boissenot consultant.

Tasted at the Château Giscours vertical, the 2005 Château Giscours is a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon and 38% Merlot picked between September 22 and October 6. Conspicuously deep in color, both the aromatics and palate replicate the strong performance from earlier this year. The bouquet offers very fine intensity with blackberry and cedar, here a tinge of cassis that becomes accentuated with time. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, slightly grainy tannin. It is very well balanced and almost Saint Julien in style. It is clearly very focused with a sustained, mineral-rich finish that (as I said before) contains real energy. This is an excellent Giscours that will age nicely over the next 20-25 years. Tasted June 2015.