Château Margaux: vintages available, prices and food pairing

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The château

The appellation's only first growth, and one of the five firsts of the Médoc and Graves. The château, built in the early 19th century in a neoclassical style, is one of the best known in Bordeaux. The Mentzelopoulos family has owned it since 1977; Corinne Mentzelopoulos runs it.

Mostly cabernet sauvignon, with merlot, a little petit verdot and cabernet franc. A wine of great finesse, perfumed, which needs fifteen years and lasts fifty. Second wine: Pavillon Rouge. The estate also makes a white, Pavillon Blanc, under the Bordeaux appellation. The appellation's other châteaux are on the Margaux wines page.

The estate covers 265 hectares, of which about 87 are red vines and 12 white vines in production, in 126 plots; cabernet sauvignon takes up 72. Deep gravels dominate, over older layers of limestone and clay. The red vines are 35 years old on average, the oldest dating from 1951. The château describes 1985 as a charming wine with round tannins, born of an “Indian summer” in September and October; 1986, the following year, as austere, powerful and very slow to open; 1988 as close to 1986, a little less concentrated. In 2003, a year of exceptional heat, the harvest began as early as 10 September.

What to serve it with

• A vintage more than twenty-five years old: a simple dish, partridge or woodcock (wine with game), fine poultry (wine with poultry).
• A vintage of fifteen to twenty-five years: saddle of lamb (wine with lamb), fillet of beef (wine with beef).
• With cheese: an old Comté (wine with cheese). No blue.

Which vintage for which occasion

The bottle for the very big dates: a golden wedding, a sixtieth, a retirement (birth-year vintage, wedding anniversary). For a collector, the original wooden case (which wine to give).