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  • Country ranking ?

    903
  • Producer ranking ?

    5
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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The Story

Château Giscours (Margaux AOC): This Classified Growth in 1855 is the first label of Château Giscours. It is of great finesse and elegance. Delicacy and power are combined in this flask to bring you the elegance expected of a great Margaux wine. The aging potential of this great wine is between 8 and 20 years or even more for the most exceptional vintages.

“A great wine is not the work of one man, it is the result of a tradition that is upheld and refined”, wrote Paul Claudel

This tradition, inseparable from the greatest wines in the Medoc has passed down the generations at Giscours.

In recent years, a young dynamic team has combined this ancestral expertise with the latest technology: the team takes a permanent care of the vines with the passing seasons, hand-picked harvests are the subject of special attention, and plot by plot management is constantly refined with substantial investments in the vineyards…

Ensuring that the best grape varieties are matched with the extraordinary terroir, providing the vital link to this fabulous alchemy, the men of Giscours have only one guiding principle: a growing quality, making it consistent and inherent to this great wine…

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Vintage 2020

In Bordeaux, the heat led to early flowering. Additionally, this led to an early harvest after a very hot summer. As a starting point, there is great maturity in the grapes, and we can expect a more opulent vintage than in recent years.

This year's summer was the hottest since 1959, but the rain fell at just the right time during the growing season. The harvest took place two weeks before the norm and will produce grapes with high alcohol potential and the lowest acidity since the 2003 vintage. As they say in Bordeaux: “It was a good and extreme growing season which , hopefully, also produces great wines.”

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Written Notes

Deep purple colour with violet hue and black core. Sophisticated character with great precision, expressive fruit, ripe blackcurrants and blackberries, hints of blackcurrant spurs and sweet elderberries, elegant toasting and mild spices and subtle oak. On the palate a wine with great precision and freshness, quoting the fruit of the nose, backed by fine toasting flavour, cocoa, dark chocolate and hints of mocha and mild spices. A very peristent taste with excellent depth and length. 

  • 95p

Giscours CC - 56% Cabernet Sauvignon + 44% Merlot. Fabulous on the nose and palate. Intense nose of red meat and tobacco leaves, very complex and powerful on the palate, strong backbone, plenty of dark berries and fat tannin, long-lasting finish. A classy and stylish effort that brings a big and broad smile to your face! 95-96p.

  • 96p

Ruby. Scented, blackberries, anise, floral, leaps out of the glass, blueberries, detailed and nuanced nose, layered. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, anise, layered, cassis, nuanced and deep. Impressive effort from Giscours. 14% alcohol. 93-95

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Origin

Margaux, Bordeaux

Other wines from this producer

La Sirène de Giscourt

Le Haut-Médoc de Giscours

Le Rosé x Giscours

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