"The 100th vintage of Château Margaux’s iconic Pavillon Blanc is to be released in a unique, wax-sealed bottle personalised with the Château logo . . . . Wonderfully ‘Château Margaux’ in style – if you’d never tasted it, this is somehow exactly how you would imagine the Sauvignon Blanc that Margaux would produce. Extremely complex and expressive aromatically. Calm, composed, and supremely elegant with an utterly sublime nose of wild hedgerow spring flowers, passionfruit, elderflower, and jasmine, confit grapefruit zest and confit melon, orange blossom, nettles, and a slight hint of mint leaf. It feels very natural. On the palate this has a brilliant sense of lift, lightness, and energy. It is, above all, luminous and radiant, brimming with vitality and with its considerable underlying power presents more as a pronounced forward thrust across the palate than in any sense of weight or density. This is incredibly tense and vibrant and unlike any other wine of the vintage. I simply love the mineral-charged, sapid salinity on the finish and the little plume of saffron just at the vanishing point. Quite exquisite, beautifully integrated, and the most fitting way in which to celebrate 100 years of this exceptional and unique wine."
Colin Hay, Tasted En Primeur With Philippe Bascaules At The Property
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