Chateau Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre, Margaux, 2005
The most old-school Margaux in the appellation, finally released after more than two decades in the cellar. Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre is famously run on a different clock from the rest of Bordeaux: Jean-Pierre Boyer, who began making wine here in the 1950s, dispensed with oak barrels in the 1960s, ages everything in cement, and refuses to release wines until they're at least a decade in bottle — sometimes much longer. The result is a Margaux that tastes like nothing else: featherlight on extraction, fragrant, transparent, more about perfume than power. The 2005 vintage is a legendary one for Bordeaux, and at twenty-one years on the wine is exactly where it should be — fully mature, savory, and unmistakably itself.
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The most old-school Margaux in the appellation, finally released after more than two decades in the cellar. Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre is famously run on a different clock from the rest of Bordeaux: Jean-Pierre Boyer, who began making wine here in the 1950s, dispensed with oak barrels in the 1960s, ages everything in cement, and refuses to release wines until they're at least a decade in bottle — sometimes much longer. The result is a Margaux that tastes like nothing else: featherlight on extraction, fragrant, transparent, more about perfume than power. The 2005 vintage is a legendary one for Bordeaux, and at twenty-one years on the wine is exactly where it should be — fully mature, savory, and unmistakably itself.
