Château Marquis d'Alesme 2023
Margaux 3ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£170.00
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Arriving: Spring 2026
| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: % | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2032 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2045 |
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Critic scores
91-93 NM, 93-95 AG, 92-93 JS, 94 JA
Critic reviews
"The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme Becker has a well-defined bouquet like its sibling Labégorce. It unfurls more slowly in the glass, revealing perfumed iris and violet scents interwoven into the black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with very pliant tannin. Slightly powdery in texture, it possesses fine weight and an expressive, lightly spiced finish. This is a well-crafted, modestly endowed Margaux, though this year I am more smitten by the Labégorce."
Neal Martin, April 2024, Vinous.com
"The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme is impressive. Raspberry jam, blood orange, white flowers, mint and lavender abound. Silky, elegant tannins wrap it all together in style. A closing burst of bright acids and lifted floral notes lends the last kick of resonance. Classy, elegant and polished, the 2023 is one of the best recent editions I have encountered. Tasted two times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Vinous.com
"This has a fresh and juicy fruit character, showing currant and citrus-peel notes. It’s medium-bodied with firm, grainy tannins. Bright and chewy at the end."
James Suckling, April 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Grip and tension, with tomato leaf, peony, lemongrass, slate, pummice stone, spiced plum and damson fruit, not the ink of the Cabernet in the northern Médoc, but caressing and full of fragrant pleasure. 45% new oak for ageing, and proof again that this estate is becoming one of the quiet scene-stealers of the Margaux appellation."
Jane Anson, April 2024, JaneAnson.com
Neal Martin, April 2024, Vinous.com
"The 2023 Marquis d'Alesme is impressive. Raspberry jam, blood orange, white flowers, mint and lavender abound. Silky, elegant tannins wrap it all together in style. A closing burst of bright acids and lifted floral notes lends the last kick of resonance. Classy, elegant and polished, the 2023 is one of the best recent editions I have encountered. Tasted two times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2024, Vinous.com
"This has a fresh and juicy fruit character, showing currant and citrus-peel notes. It’s medium-bodied with firm, grainy tannins. Bright and chewy at the end."
James Suckling, April 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Grip and tension, with tomato leaf, peony, lemongrass, slate, pummice stone, spiced plum and damson fruit, not the ink of the Cabernet in the northern Médoc, but caressing and full of fragrant pleasure. 45% new oak for ageing, and proof again that this estate is becoming one of the quiet scene-stealers of the Margaux appellation."
Jane Anson, April 2024, JaneAnson.com
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