Served blind at the Southwold 2009 tasting. There is a Burgundy-like purity on the nose of the Marquis de Terme: perfumed scents of rose petals, bergamot and small dark cherries mingling with cassis. The palate is medium-bodied with a crisp, compact entry. It is very tight and broody but fresh and well defined with a chewy peppery finish. Fine. Tasted January 2013.

– eRobertParker.com, Jul 2013

Bright, full ruby-red. Sexy, syrah-like aromas of blackberry, violet, smoke, game and underbrush. Densely packed and fine-grained, with lovely inner-mouth floral lift to its crushed berry flavors. A very rich and sweet style of Margaux, but the broad, dusty, building tannins call for some cellaring. Boasts excellent length for a wine from this chateau.

A ripe, woodsy wine with plenty of forest floor, black currant, cherry and dusty, loamy soil notes, this wine is showing quite well, with medium to full-bodied, silky tannins and89 a long finish. It should certainly last for 20+ years.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #199, Feb 2012)

A ripe, woodsy wine with plenty of forest floor, black currant, cherry and dusty, loamy soil notes, this wine is showing quite well, with medium to full-bodied, silky tannins and a long finish. It should certainly last for 20+ years.

Inky purple. Perfumed nose combines kirsch, licorice and violet with a pungent dusty minerality. Firm yet silky on entry, with densely packed red plum, blueberry, cedar and graphite flavors. The tannins saturate the entire mouth without coming off as hard or dry. The rising finish shows more cedar along with a hint of shoe polish. One of my four samples was strangely underripe/overripe, and another lighter but very elegant.

Tasted blind. Blackish crimson. Very discreet nose. Fruity start and then it’s drying out a bit on the end. Hard work! (JR)