Log in / Sign up Clos Du Jaugueyron Margaux Red 2016
This is their best cuvee from a surface of 3.75 hectares, with 8,000 vines per hectare, and with most of the vines are 27 years old and some 7 years old. Yields are low with an average of 30hl / ha. The grapes are hand harvested in small crates including sorting in the vineyard. No foulage or no added yeast. Fermentation in concrete tanks. Aging in a reductive environment for 12 months in barrels with 50% of new oak barrels. Barrel makers are Taransaud, Ermitage, Berthomieu and Stockinger. Only 6,000 bottles are produced each year. Light filtration if needed, low sulfur.
Beef Tenderloin, Roast Goose, Duck Breast, Roast Pork and Flank Steak
Aromatics: Beautiful nose, this is a very perfumed wine with subtle smoky woody aromas perfectly integrated with just ripe blackberries and blackcurrants. This wine is all about finesse and I could keep smelling it for hours with its dark chocolate and earthy notes.
Palate: Soft and velvety attack, opening on a fleshy spherical wine with texture and impressive length. Like on the nose blackberries and blackcurrant are the main event here this is one of the prettiest Margaux I had the chance to taste. The tannins are present yet gentle and polished, I also like the sense of place and length of this wine as well as the smart use of oak and limited extraction. I think this gives the wine that perfect complexity and drinkability balance. This is a wine I love to drink and share now
