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Château Margaux--Vintage 1985
Margaux, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Lot 427 not in original wooden case. Lot 426 has a slightly raised cork. Lot 426 has a very bin-soiled label, lot 427 has two lightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Vintage note: I have been much looking forward to reviewing this vintage, hoping that a reappraisal of my notes would confirm my perceptions. It seems to encapsulate all that is good about Bordeaux, the wine, not the city: its weight, its balance, its character. It is certainly my favourite vintage of this splendid decade typifying claret at its best.
But why, and how? Quite simple really: after one of the coldest winters on record, happily when the vines were dormant but with considerable frost damage in some districts, there was an early and successful flowering which anticipated an early and substantial crop. Following a long, hot summer, the harvest took place in ideal conditions. Only the unlucky or the incapable made a mess of their '85s.
Having re-read all my notes, I am more than ever convinced that this is one of the most perfect vintages, both for drinking now and for keeping. ***** Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
Tasting note: While not as powerful and concentrated as the 1986, 1983, or 1982, the 1985 Margaux is more charming and, at present, more complex than those more backward vintages. The color is a healthy dark ruby/purple. The seductive nose offers copious quantities of lavishly ripe black berry and cassis fruit intermixed with toasty oak and floral scents. This rich, expansive, and velvety-textured wine has developed more length, and additional flavor dimensions over the last several years. It has always been a remarkably approachable and enjoyable wine, but it appears to be taking on more character and quality than I ever imagined. It is one of the most delicious and seductively opulent Margauxs of the last two decades. I consistently underestimated this wine when young. It gets better every time I re-taste it, which happens with increasing frequency. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted 10/97. 94 points. Robert Parker, Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition, January 1998
11 bottlesper lot
Margaux, 1er cru classé. Château-bottled
Lot 427 not in original wooden case. Lot 426 has a slightly raised cork. Lot 426 has a very bin-soiled label, lot 427 has two lightly bin-soiled labels. Levels into neck
Vintage note: I have been much looking forward to reviewing this vintage, hoping that a reappraisal of my notes would confirm my perceptions. It seems to encapsulate all that is good about Bordeaux, the wine, not the city: its weight, its balance, its character. It is certainly my favourite vintage of this splendid decade typifying claret at its best.
But why, and how? Quite simple really: after one of the coldest winters on record, happily when the vines were dormant but with considerable frost damage in some districts, there was an early and successful flowering which anticipated an early and substantial crop. Following a long, hot summer, the harvest took place in ideal conditions. Only the unlucky or the incapable made a mess of their '85s.
Having re-read all my notes, I am more than ever convinced that this is one of the most perfect vintages, both for drinking now and for keeping. ***** Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
Tasting note: While not as powerful and concentrated as the 1986, 1983, or 1982, the 1985 Margaux is more charming and, at present, more complex than those more backward vintages. The color is a healthy dark ruby/purple. The seductive nose offers copious quantities of lavishly ripe black berry and cassis fruit intermixed with toasty oak and floral scents. This rich, expansive, and velvety-textured wine has developed more length, and additional flavor dimensions over the last several years. It has always been a remarkably approachable and enjoyable wine, but it appears to be taking on more character and quality than I ever imagined. It is one of the most delicious and seductively opulent Margauxs of the last two decades. I consistently underestimated this wine when young. It gets better every time I re-taste it, which happens with increasing frequency. Anticipated maturity: Now-2010. Last tasted 10/97. 94 points. Robert Parker, Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition, January 1998
11 bottlesper lot
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