- Colour Red
- Producer Château Malescot St Exupéry
- Region Margaux
- Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
- Drinking 2018 - 2035
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available Now
2009 - Ch Malescot St-Exupéry 3ème Cru Margaux - 12x75cl
- Colour Red
- Producer Château Malescot St Exupéry
- Region Margaux
- Grape Cab. Sauvignon/ Merlot/ Cab. Franc/ Petit Verdot
- Drinking 2018 - 2035
- Case size 12x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, April 2010, Score: 94-96
A blockbuster Malescot that could rival the 2005 as the best wine produced at this Margaux château. This 2009 opens up with rich, roasted coffee which furthers transforms into succulent, sweet fruit and lots of ample, yet velvety tannins. Sheer elegance but with power and personality. A bit like Lauren Bacall.
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Goedhuis, April 2010, Score: 94-96
A blockbuster Malescot that could rival the 2005 as the best wine produced at this Margaux château. This 2009 opens up with rich, roasted coffee which furthers transforms into succulent, sweet fruit and lots of ample, yet velvety tannins. Sheer elegance but with power and personality. A bit like Lauren Bacall.
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Neal Martin, March 2019, Score: ?
The 2009 Malescot St. Exupery has such a sweet and honeyed bouquet, more McClaren Vale Shiraz than Margaux! The palate is sweet on the entry, huge extraction here, honeyed in style with a rather cloying finish. I am not sure what to make of this bottle because I have encountered marvelous examples in the past. I will re-taste and defer judgement for now. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners’ 2009 Bordeaux tasting.
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Robert Parker, February 2012, Score: 96
An inky/purple color is followed by notes of Asian plum sauce, forest floor, creme de cassis, black raspberries and a floral component that is unusual for a Margaux. A wine of exceptional intensity and purity with a full-bodied, sumptuous texture, lots of fresh vibrancy and excellent definition, this beautiful 2009 exhibits high but sweet tannin. It is more sexy than the 2005 was at a similar age, although their level of extract and concentration is relatively equal. Something about the 2009 reminds me of a Margaux version of St.-Julien's Leoville Poyferre ... if that makes any sense. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2040.
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Robert Parker, April 2010, Score: 95-97
It-s going to take a lot for this wine to equal or eclipse the 2005, but it is a different style of wine. While the 2005 is slightly more structured, with more aggressive tannin, this has more fat, texture, and more tactile magnetism going for it. I suppose the best thing is to own both. Opaque ruby/purple, with a beautiful nose of charcoal, forest floor, and black fruits, the wine hits the palate with great intensity, a sumptuous texture, yet brilliant precision and purity. This is a superb wine that should drink well for 20-25 years. Drink: 2010 - 2035
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James Suckling
This is absolutely fabulous. I love the complex aromas of ripe fruit and fresh flowers that turn to mineral and raspberry, along with tannins on the finish. This changes all the time. Full-bodied and dense, but so beautiful and long. The layers of ultrafine tannins just turn off the tip of your tongue.
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Decanter, April 2010, Score: 17.5
Fine dense red, strikingly vibrant cassis nose, very good clear fruit with density and length, quite tight now and will open up well and always be distinctively spicy. Drink 2015-24.
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Wine Spectator, April 2010, Score: 97-100
This is absolutely fabulous. I love the complex aromas of ripe fruit and fresh flowers that turn to mineral and raspberry, along with tannins on the finish. This changes all the time. Full-bodied and dense, but so beautiful and long. The layers of ultrafine tannins just turn off the tip of your tongue.
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.