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Chateau Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre, Margaux, 2005

Red Wine from Bordeaux, France
by Chateau Bel-Air Marquis d'Aligre
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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.

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Antonio Galloni

92 points

"The 2005 Bel-Air Marquis d’Aligre has a strict, backward, tobacco and graphite-tinged bouquet with more black fruit than red, unlike the 2001. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, harmonious and crisp with a fine thread of acidity. There is a gentle build in the mouth, quite linear but delivering a very nuanced, lightly spiced, clove-infused finish. This Margaux is endowed with impressive density compared to other vintages tasted, the fruit veering towards black plums and a hint of balsamic. I admire the transparency of the wine, one that makes you feel as if you are peering directly into the vineyard. Tasted at the Bel-Air Marquis d’Aligre dinner." —Neal Martin

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Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken with herbes de Provence, leg of lamb pink in the center with thyme jus, veal chop with morels, or a soft-rind cow's-milk cheese with a baguette.

Tasting Profile

Dried rose, violet, cedar, tobacco, redcurrant gone to preserve, and a savory truffled note. Medium-bodied, fully resolved tannins, vibrant acidity, the no-oak transparency this estate is famous for, and a long, perfumed finish.