1961 Chateau Margaux Premier Cru Classe, Margaux

Colour: Red

Vintage: 1961

Region: Bordeaux

% Alcohol: 13.00

93 RP

1961 Chateau Margaux Premier Cru Classe, Margaux

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Tasting Notes and Scores

93 RP

An intense bouquet filled with the scents of ripe plums, flowers, toasted walnuts, and oak is divine. This expansive wine is silky, rich, very generously flavored, long, and full bodied on the palate. It is fully mature, but there is little chance of this wine falling apart for at least another decade. I have high hopes that the 1982, 1983, and 1986 will ultimately surpass this vintage of Margaux. The 1961 is a top-flight wine and unquestionably the last great Margaux until the Mentzelopoulos era began its remarkable string of great Margaux in 1978.Anticipated maturity: Now. Last tasted, 4/91.

Robert Parker (Bordeaux Book, 3rd Edition Jan 1998)

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