1959 Château Margaux Margaux Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Medium-bodied, soft, elegant, refined, and silky, what the wine doesn't offer in depth, it makes up for it in its aromatics that combine dried flowers, cedar, tobacco leaf, and sweet red plums and cherries. This is a very good wine, but there is no reason to hold it for further aging.

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Fully mature, this is all about elegance, refinement, silky textures and the patina of age that provides its unique textural profile and secondary aromatics loaded with spice box, tobacco, cedarwood, wet earth and red cherries. Medium-bodied, with freshness, purity and sweetness in the cherries on your palate, this is a treat.

Medium bodied, elegant, finesse styled wine with an intoxicating, floral, earth, tobacco and sweet, red berry perfume. Soft, silky and graceful on the palate, the wine was effortless to drink. Fully mature, this is not a wine that warrants or probably appreciates further cellaring.

I've tasted better of this in the past. But as you know, wines with almost 60 years of bottle age are always going to be variable. the fruit was fading, leaving you with an experience that was better in the tobacco, smoke, cherry, herb and earthy nose, than on the palate, where you could feel and taste it drying out. If you have a bottle, you should be drinking this wine, holding it longer, is not in your best interest.

Brick and tea colored with light ruby accents, which is correct for the age, the aromatics offer cassis, strawberry jam, tobacco, lead pencil and earth. Medium bodied with soft, light textures finishing with sweet red cherries. Holding this any longer is pushing your luck.

Another point of reference in the provenance is everything, as this bottle showed great! Tobacco, smoke, cigar wrapper, gravel, fennel, plums, cocoa and boysenberry scents open to a soft, ripe, medium/full bodied wine that finishes with elegant, ripe, plush textures, spicy plums and cassis. This was much better than the previous bottle tasted year.

Smoke, tobacco, cassis, floral, earth, forest floor and truffle scents lead to a medium bodied wine that ends with a spice, cassis and cranberry filled finish. 1959 was not a stellar year for Chateau Margaux and like most tastings from a 750 ml bottle of this wine, this was past its prime. Large formast should offer a better tasting experience.