2015 Ch Giscours 3ème Cru Margaux - 1x300cl
06B5GISCSDM _ 2015 - Ch Giscours 3ème Cru Margaux - 1x300cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Giscours
  • Region Margaux
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2026 - 2046
  • Case size 1x300cl
  • Available Now

2015 - Ch Giscours 3ème Cru Margaux - 1x300cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Giscours
  • Region Margaux
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2026 - 2046
  • Case size 1x300cl
  • Available Now
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  • Goedhuis, April 2016, Score: 91-93

    A bright ruby purple. Sweet berry fruits on the nose are followed by copious supple tannins. The volume here is modest compared to some others in the appellation, but it has a brisk, fresh charm of its own.

  • Neal Martin, July 2019, Score: 95

    The 2015 Giscours has a beautiful, clean, pure bouquet of generous ripe black cherry, raspberry and crushed violet aromas that could only come from Margaux. The medium-bodied palate is quite dense but wonderfully poised, offering sappy red fruit and very fine tannin and delivering impressive detail on the bay leaf and tea leaf finish. Alexandre van Beek oversaw one of the best Giscours in recent years. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.

  • Neal Martin, April 2016, Score: 94-96

    The 2015 Giscours is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. That is in stark comparison to older vintages, for example the 2000 Giscours that was 50/50 Cabernet and Merlot. This vintage is matured in 50% new oak. Winemaker Alexandre Van Beek told me that the 2015 "...reflects the true terroir at Giscours that created the great wines of the 1960s and 1970s." That is something to live up to with fresh memories of the 1961 in my brain. The bouquet is very intense and almost "untamed" at first, but it calms down in the glass, revealing attractive scents of blackberry, raspberry, cedar and graphite. This is a Giscours determined to make a good impression...and it does. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, very pure, a little spicier than recent vintages, adorned with a gentle crescendo in the mouth towards a really quite fantastic, tensile, complex and compelling finish. Having tasted the 1961 and 1970 Giscours just a few months ago, I wager that the 2015 will be the best since the 1961. Time to fall back in love with this great Margaux property.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2016, Score: 91-94

    The 2015 Giscours is terrific. In fact, this may be one of the very best recent vintages I have tasted here. Ample and quite broad in its first impression, the 2015 possesses magnificent depth from start to finish. Even with all of its intensity, the 2015 retains striking freshness and delineation. Succulent dark cherry, plum, blood orange and sweet spice notes all flesh out in the glass. Creamy, silky tannins add to the wine's considerable appeal. The purity of the fruit here is striking. The blend is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot, with no Cabernet Franc this year. The 2015 is a terrific Giscours.

  • Robert Parker, Feb 2018, Score: 94+/100

    Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Giscours opens with expressive cassis, blackberry and red currants on the nose with touches of cedar chest, roses and pencil lead. Medium to full-bodied with a good core of muscular fruit and firm, grainy tannins, it finishes long. Lisa Perrotti Brown Score 94+/100 Drink Dates 2019-2039

  • Robert Parker, Feb 2018, Score: 94+/100

    Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Giscours opens with expressive cassis, blackberry and red currants on the nose with touches of cedar chest, roses and pencil lead. Medium to full-bodied with a good core of muscular fruit and firm, grainy tannins, it finishes long. Lisa Perrotti Brown Score 94+/100 Drink Dates 2019-2039

  • James Suckling, April 2016, Score: 96-97

    This sets a new level for Giscours with blackberry, black truffle and blackberry. So much walnut and cedar. Full body, dense and incredibly long and powerful. Clearly the best Giscour since 1970 and 1975.

  • Decanter, April 2016, Score: 92

    Slightly smoky cassis nose then good florality and fine depth of Cabernet fruit and fine tannins. Has the classic Giscours charm with more weight than usual; will show very well.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2016, Score: 17.5+

    (70 Cabernet Sauvignon, 25 Merlot, 5 Petit Verdot) | 50% new oak. This is a pretty, blushing Giscours with delicate floral notes and an attractive scent. I am very impressed because the segue between the alluring perfume and the deeper thrum of fruit is very well-judged. At the back of the palate there is a luxurious, oak-soaked black cherry compote and this makes it a very successful wine from this oft-confusing property.

  • Jancis Robinson, April 2016, Score: 17

    Dark crimson. Relatively light nose. Very luscious sweet fruit on the palate - a very winning wine with a medium charge of tannin. Just a little inky on the finish. But good and appetising. Drink 2023-2035

  • Wine Spectator, April 2016, Score: 92-95

    Solid, with warm plum, fig and blackberry reduction notes, inlaid with a lovely alder accent. Flows beautifully through the long, velvety finish.

Producer

Château Giscours

A diamond in the rough, for many years Château Giscours was an inconsistent performer. In 1995,the estate was sold to Eric Albada Jelgersma, who purchased Château du Tertre two years later. Hisarrival has had a significant impact in terms of quality. As Robert Parker has noted in Bordeaux (2003) his 2001, 2000 and 1999 vintages are "the finest Giscours trilogy to date."

Region

Margaux

Plump, silky and seductive are the words often used to describe wines from Margaux. Because of their style, they tend to be user friendly and more approachable when young. This is in part due to its terroir which is comprised of the thinnest soil as well as the highest proportion of chunky gravel in all of the Médoc. It drains well but also is it more susceptible to vintage variation. Margaux wines tend to have the highest proportions of Merlot within the core of the Médoc further adding to their ample roundness and openness. Margaux is home to the largest number of classified growths including its namesake first growth, Château Margaux, as well as third growths, Palmer and d'Issan.

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