Alter Ego de Château Palmer 2011
Margaux
Bordeaux, France
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.5% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2025 |
| Grapes: 48% Merlot, 37% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
89 RP, 88 NM, 89+ VM, 92 JS
Critic reviews
"The draconian selection process has resulted in a delicious second wine, the 2011 Alter Ego de Palmer. It boasts plenty of plum, black cherry and black currant fruit intermixed with hints of vanillin and earth. Medium-bodied and supple, it can be drunk early on, but should evolve for 15 or more years. Drink now-2020. Winemaker Thomas Duroux continues to fine tune this already brilliant estate, producing first-growth quality wines year after year."
Robert Parker, April 2014, RobertParker.com
"The 2011 Alter Ego de Palmer has a ripe and generous bouquet, impressive fruit concentration with blackberry, raspberry and bilberry, pencil box and pressed violets. Quintessential Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannins, fleshy and forward, quite bold compared to its peers though it lacks some complexity and delineation on the finish. Great nose, the palate not quite matching up. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting."
Neal Martin, September 2021, Vinous.com
"(48% merlot, 37% cabernet sauvignon and 15% petit verdot): Fully saturated purple-ruby. Perfumed, sexy nose of fresh blackcurrant, cinnamon and aromatic herbs. Suave, dense and sweet, with ripe blackberry and cassis flavors complicated by bright minerality. This is the second time petit verdot was used in Alter Ego: director Thomas Duroux told me that because he found it less structured than usual this year but very aromatic, he thought it was ideal for the estate's second wine."
Ian d'Agata, May 2012, Vinous.com
"This is classy for the vintage, with beautifully crafted tannins and focused, pure fruit. Currants and blackberries. Full body, fine tannins and a long, long finish. Second wine of Palmer. Best second wine of the vintage? Better in 2019."
James Suckling, February 2014, JamesSuckling.com
Robert Parker, April 2014, RobertParker.com
"The 2011 Alter Ego de Palmer has a ripe and generous bouquet, impressive fruit concentration with blackberry, raspberry and bilberry, pencil box and pressed violets. Quintessential Margaux. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannins, fleshy and forward, quite bold compared to its peers though it lacks some complexity and delineation on the finish. Great nose, the palate not quite matching up. Tasted blind at the annual 10-Year-On tasting."
Neal Martin, September 2021, Vinous.com
"(48% merlot, 37% cabernet sauvignon and 15% petit verdot): Fully saturated purple-ruby. Perfumed, sexy nose of fresh blackcurrant, cinnamon and aromatic herbs. Suave, dense and sweet, with ripe blackberry and cassis flavors complicated by bright minerality. This is the second time petit verdot was used in Alter Ego: director Thomas Duroux told me that because he found it less structured than usual this year but very aromatic, he thought it was ideal for the estate's second wine."
Ian d'Agata, May 2012, Vinous.com
"This is classy for the vintage, with beautifully crafted tannins and focused, pure fruit. Currants and blackberries. Full body, fine tannins and a long, long finish. Second wine of Palmer. Best second wine of the vintage? Better in 2019."
James Suckling, February 2014, JamesSuckling.com