2020 Malescot St Exupery
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Malescot Saint-Exupéry is a top wine, exuding Margaux’s finer qualities in 2020. The wine has excellent-quality, spicy oak notes, brilliantly entwined with lifted, floral tones. It is what you hope to find in Margaux, but don’t always get. The tannins are fully resolved, bringing lovely finesse, elegance and silkiness to the palate. The fruit is pristine and deep, dominated by fresh blackcurrant. There is a very balanced interplay of floral and fruit notes, plus the flattering oak. There is an enjoyable bitterness to the finish. Excellent.
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James Suckling
Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Enjoyable black fruit aromatics on the nose, they do a good job here of soft pedalling the extraction on the attack, although by the mid palate we are in bitter chocolate and liquorice territory. Again, concentration and intensity is an overriding signature of the vintage. 3% Petit Verdot completes the blend. A yield of 31hl/ha.
The 2020 Malescot Saint Exupéry offers up scents of scorched earth, licorice, smoke, gravel and menthol. Powerful, bold and savory, the 2020 possesses remarkable depth and tons of character. Malescot has been one of the under the radar gems in Bordeaux these last few years. The 2020 is another gorgeous wine from the château.
The 2020 Malescot St. Exupery was picked at 31hl/ha. It has a bouquet that I would describe as controlled opulence: lavish blueberry, Dorset plums, crushed violet and incense burst from the glass... but in orderly fashion. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe and succulent tannins that lend this Margaux a fleshy texture, yet there is clearly ample structure, as well as marvelous salinity and precision on the finish. This 2020 continues the purple patch for this property and comes highly recommended.