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Château Giscours Barrel sample (Margaux)
Margaux · France
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Country
- France
- Region
- Margaux
- Appellation
- Margaux
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- medium
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
carne vermelha · cordeiro · pratos de caça · queijos duros · risoto de cogumelos · pratos trufados
Rated vintages
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201294 pts
93–95. Barrel sample. This firm, dry wine is solidly rich and full in the mouth. With fine acidity and black currant fruit that show through the tannins, it is a wine with considerable potential.
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201191 pts
90-92. Barrel sample. Ripe, rich and soft, this wine has open, juicy fruit and attractive red plum flavors; it already shows its fruity character.
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201093 pts
92-94 Sweetly juicy wine, the new wood giving high toast to the black currant flavors. It is on the elegant side, although the new wood needs to be tamed to let the fruit come through.
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200995 pts
94-96 Barrel sample. Full of blackcurrant fruits, ripe and sweet tannins and forward fruit. The wine feels polished, ripe, smooth.
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200893 pts
92-94 Barrel sample. A solid, wood and fruit balanced wine, foursquare and chunky. It has a firm backbone of tannins, and the dark plum and fig fruits match well with final lift of acidity.