{"title":"Chateau Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre","description":"\u003cp\u003eBel Air-Marquis d'Aligre's cult Margaux are some of the most unique and honest wines in Bordeaux.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey're made by 90 year-old Jean-Pierre Boyer, who has made over 70 vintages. His approach could be described as very old-school, except that there's barely any use of oak. The wines might see a few months in old barrique, but they spend years in cement cuve, then more years in bottle before release.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnother idiosyncrasy: these wines are very lightly colored, and not so tannic. They are fruit-forward, acid-driven, and require long decants (4+ hours) to show their best.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStill, they age like great Bordeaux should, with classical 'mature claret' aromas and flavors: sous-bois, menthol, cassis etc. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chateau-bel-air-marquis-daligre-margaux-2005-acell05016-wks3-5-8-a","title":"Chateau Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre, Margaux, 2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acker Merrall \u0026 Condit [AC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45809639587897,"sku":"NYC-A-ACELL05016 WKS3-5-8-050626-CBAMAM2005-ROW32-BOX 2\/3","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Bel-Air-Marquis-dAligre-Margaux-2005-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York_3ea91157.jpg?v=1778942797"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/chateau-bel-air-marquis-daligre.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}