2024 Marquis de Terme
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Tasting Notes
Slim and supple, savoury blue fruits, shot through with campfire and liquorice, crayon and roses, well handled in the vintage. Good Margaux typicity and has ageing ability in the mid term. Harvest 25 September to 4 October. 40% new oak. Now including the vines from Château Marojallia, but also reducing the percentage of 1st wine overall, so really focusing on the best plots.
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Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
Neal Martin, Vinous
More reviews and scores
The 2024 Marquis de Terme comes across as sultry and lacks the fruit intensity of its peers at the moment, though it is delineated and fresh with no green traits. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, a bit more rustic than other Margaux wines but solid with a cohesive cedar-infused finish. Fine.
Blackcurrants, flowers, cherries, espresso, and cigar box aromatics are already expressive. The wine is soft, seductive, and forward, with a core of plummy fruits with touches of spice, and mint in the mid-palate, and in the finish. The wine blends 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 38% Merlot, and 2% Petit Verdot.
Tea leaves, minerals and blackcurrants. Firm, chalky tannins with medium body and a nice, fluid center-palate. The finish is crunchy and juicy.
About the producer
This Fourth Growth estate has been owned by the same family (the Sénéclauzes) since 1936. Over the last 25 years, later picking, a higher level of sorting and modern winemaking has fine-tuned the quality.