Chateau d'Issan is classified as a Margaux. So what the heck is Chateau Margaux...

Chateau d'Issan is classified as a Margaux. So what the heck is Chateau Margaux...

Tough in its femininity--like some hypothetical love child of David Bowie and Iggy Pop--this, my first first growth, is an icon of both subtlety and force. The aroma balances smoked chocolate chips with very ripe, floral citrus flavors. The acid-driven finish plays well against the young fruit, juicy with cassis ...

Chateau Margaux, Margaux, Medoc, Bordeaux, France. One of the five Grand Cru Classe in the 1855 classification. Here in winter. Bought in 1977 (if I remember right) by the Mentzelopoulos family (of grocery shop Felix Potin fortune), restored to it's old glory and quality, (part-) sold to the Italian Agnellis, and later bouight back by the Mentzelopoulus, now run by Corinne Mentzelopoulos...

Forum: Wine Talk Posted By: Rudi Finkler Post Time: 01-31-2008 at 01:01 PM

Plan for a new motorway to pass through Margaux's vineyards provokes outrage...

My guide to Bordeaux continues, this time looking at the first of the Médoc communes, Margaux...