2005 Chateau Margaux, 1st Growth Margaux (1 x Magnum)

France Bordeaux Margaux

From the moment it is opened, the 2005 Margaux takes things to another level. The bouquet alone is breathtaking in its beauty. Bright, delineated but also explosive, the 2005 takes hold of all the senses and never lets up. The flavors are vibrant and focused, with gorgeous lift and precision. The 2005 is a riveting, aristocratic Margaux that will drink well for several decades. Today the flavors are still remarkably youthful. The wine drinks well because of its magnificent balance, but readers who prefer more aromatic and flavor complexity will want to wait for at least another five years. No matter how you look at it, the 2005 Margaux is pure magic.

2005 Chateau Margaux, 1st Growth Margaux (1 x Magnum)

From the moment it is opened, the 2005 Margaux takes things to another level. The bouquet alone is breathtaking in its beauty. Bright, delineated but also explosive, the 2005 takes hold of all the senses and never lets up. The flavors are vibrant and focused, with gorgeous lift and precision. The 2005 is a riveting, aristocratic Margaux that will drink well for several decades. Today the flavors are still remarkably youthful. The wine drinks well because of its magnificent balance, but readers who prefer more aromatic and flavor complexity will want to wait for at least another five years. No matter how you look at it, the 2005 Margaux is pure magic.

France Bordeaux Margaux
Producer Chateau Margaux
Sub-Region Margaux
Region Bordeaux
Country France
Vintage 2005
Colour Red
ABV 14.00%

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Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The first-growth 2005 Château Margaux (85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot), a lavish fragrance of blackcurrants, velvety new saddle leather, spring flowers and spice soars from the glass. The wood is already totally concealed beneath the cascade of fruit in this medium to full-bodied, pure and majestic wine. This concentrated, dense, but nevertheless strikingly elegant, multi-layered wine has a finish of 45+ seconds. It builds incrementally to a crescendo and finale. This is a stunner that can be approached already, but promises to be better in another 5-10 years and last at least 25 or more years.

98+ Points / Drinking 2020 - 2050

By Robert M. Parker, Jr. / June 2015

Vinous

In two recent tastings the 2005 Château Margaux has been nothing less than magnificent. A wine of stunning perfume and inner sweetness, the 2005 gradually opens to reveal layers of red-toned fruit intermingled with floral accents. It’s as if all the classic Margaux signatures have been amped up in a huge way. Dehydration on the vine concentrated the fruit, but also the impression of tannin and acid, such that the 2005 retains huge fruit density along with plenty of brightness as well. Vibrant and beautifully layered, the 2005 Grand Vin is off the charts and easily one of the wines of the vintage. Readers who own it or can find it are in for a real treat. Tasted two times.

99 Points / Drinking 2021 - 2055

By Antonio Galloni / April 2021

Vinous

The 2005 Château Margaux is a stupendous wine. It has a multi-faceted bouquet with a mélange of black and red fruit, pressed flowers, cedar and graphite. A blue fruit hint emerges with time. It is still backward at the moment. The palate is intense for this First Growth with vivid flavors: blackberry, cedar, damson and a touch of cassis borrowed from up in Pauillac. It fans out remarkably on the mineral-driven finish, and despite its attractiveness, I reckon this is still a few years away from its drinking window. Patience is required. Tasted at the château.

98 Points / Drinking 2030 - 2070

By Neal Martin / September 2023

Vinous

(85% cabernet sauvignon, 8% merlot, 6% petit verdot and 1% cabernet franc) Bright, saturated ruby-red; not the darkest young Margaux of recent years. Brilliantly perfumed, pure nose of blackberry, violet, minerals and sexy toasty oak. Wonderfully sweet and subtle in the mouth, with the wine’s extraordinary finesse of texture partly hiding its great density. It’s hard to imagine a more seamless, fine-grained wine at this level of power. Blue and black fruits are further sharpened by the wine’s floral character. Perhaps most impressive today on the back half, where the wine spreads out to take over the entire palate and ultimately expands to fill the mouth and olfactories. There’s great backbone here for aging, but no sensation of hardness even today.

97-100 Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2006

Vinous

Deep ruby. Brilliant aromas of boysenberry, blackberry, violet, minerals, espresso and bitter chocolate; an incredible black hole of a nose. Distinctly outsized and lush for Margaux yet with great energy and thrust thanks to a penetrating mineral character. This builds toward the back of the palate, staining everything in its path with pure sap. Offers a uncanny combination of silky texture and grip of steel, with black fruit flavors framed and intensified by firm acidity. This had been fined a month before I tasted it but still showed extraordinary vibrancy and definition. Pontallier may wait until November to bottle this wine, as he did with the 2000.

97-99 Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2007

Vinous

(bottled late, in November of 2007) Saturated red-ruby. Explosive aromas of plum, raspberry, bitter chocolate, coffee, almond paste and smoke; this smells voluptuous. Then extraordinarily opulent on the palate, with an almost marzipan-like ripeness. Coats every square millimeter of the mouth with a texture of liquid silk. The baby fat here is incredible, but there’s a structure of steel and powerful minerality underneath. One of the longest samples I tasted in Bordeaux this spring, and a wine with uncanny finishing sweetness. This fabulous vintage of Margaux should evolve positively in bottle for three or four decades in a cold cellar.

98+ Points

By Stephen Tanzer / May 2008